{"id":6115,"date":"2019-10-24T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T06:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"rains-threaten-smooth-running-of-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/24\/rains-threaten-smooth-running-of-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Rains Threaten Smooth Running Of Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Logistical\nand infrastructural challenges, aggravated by heavy rains in parts of the\ncountry, threaten the smooth administration of the national examinations for\nStandard Eight and Form Four students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kenya\nCertificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination is due to start next\nTuesday, but Ministry of Education officials are still grappling with how to\nadminister it in areas marooned by floods. In certain areas, the roads to some\nschools have been washed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practical\nand oral examinations in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE)\nbegan on Monday, and the papers had to be airlifted to some schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXTRA\nRESOURCES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ngovernment last week announced that three ministries would manage the\nadministration of the examinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Education\nCS George Magoha also said that extra resources, including police helicopters,\nhad been set aside to ensure the exams are not interrupted. Evacuation of\ncandidates in areas where flooding poses a threat has also been considered. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Rains-threaten-smooth-running-of-exams\/1056-5322694-yh0tal\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Logistical and infrastructural challenges, aggravated by heavy rains in parts of the country, threaten the smooth administration of the national examinations for Standard Eight and Form Four&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}