Kenya: Public universities' two-year wait conundrum

Students who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination in November 2006 and qualified well enough to join regular courses in public universities are still at home, writes Ibrashim Mwathane in The Nation. They look forward to joining universities of choice later this year. By then they will have been out of school for close to two years.

This, ironically, is the price of excelling in secondary school examinations today - a good two years chipped out of the academic ladder of qualified students.
Their counterparts, who chose to pursue education in private universities, proceeded with their courses of choice from May-June 2007, soon after the results were out. They have now reversed fortunes on students who probably performed better. They will start off in life with a two-year advantage. Is this fair? Must we continue this way?
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