Gladys Shollei Reveals How She Struggled Academically Throughout Early College Years

Nationwide Meeting Deputy Speaker Gladys Boss Shollei on Monday, January 8, highlighted how she was once on the backside of her class throughout her major faculty days.

The Uasin Gishu County Girl Consultant made the confession through the launch of the  Kenya Certificates of Secondary Training (KCSE) 2023 at Moi Women Excessive College Eldoret.  

Whereas making her remarks, she inspired 2023 KCSE candidates to embrace the outcomes they’ve obtained.

She additional inspired the candidates that they’ll face assessments of their lives and at each probability they’ve, they’ve an opportunity to enhance.

“You may outline your circumstances, don’t let this outline you,” she acknowledged. 

Referencing her private training journey, Shollei highlighted that whereas at Hill College in Eldoret, she was on the backside of her class within the CPE examinations which deterred her from becoming a member of secondary faculty.

Nonetheless, this didn’t cease her from soldiering on as she joined her sister at Loreto Convent Matunda the place the nuns allowed her to proceed together with her research after which she ended up prime of her class.

“I couldn’t get a spot at secondary faculty, however as a result of my sister was already at Loreto Convent Matunda, the nuns determined to permit me to go to the college simply to maintain us collectively. By the point I had completed at Loreto Matunda, I used to be prime of my class.” 

Shollei additional urged college students who won’t carry out effectively to affix the college to apply for Technical and Vocational Training and Coaching Authority (TvET) packages.

Moreover, the legislator urged the Ministry of Training to make the inspecting system to be an accommodating programme moderately than an elimination program. 

A complete of 903,260 college students sat final 12 months’s KCSE exams, a rise from 881,416 candidates who took the exams in 2022.

CS Machogu through the launch of the outcomes, remarked that the Ministry of Training had sealed loopholes for examination dishonest. 

Earlier, President William Ruto had tasked the Ministry to crack down on academics and college students partaking in examination malpractices.