Congratulations to the 993,226 students who sat the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).
I applaud the 270,715 students who have qualified to join University, and also the rest who will find training and skills development opportunities in tertiary institutions, vocational training institutions and other opportunities.
Examination results are not an end in themselves but a means to an end.
As Kenya retires the nostalgic KCSE by 2027, the transition to the Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) system will provide a more adaptive human resource for our country, the software and key enabler of Kenya’s ambition to join the nations of the economic first world within a generation.
While the 8-4-4 programme has been a good education system, CBET is a better and superior alternative.
The Government has taken deliberate steps in the last three years to ensure a smooth transition from 8-4- 4 to CBET. This will remain the case until we achieve the full implementation of the transition and thereafter the fine tuning and perfection thereof.
Kithure Kindiki,
Deputy President, Republic of Kenya
