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Families wake up to a New Year nightmare: admission letters for schools they never chose, a 'technical glitch' excuse from the Ministry, and a frantic race against time before the January 12 reporting date.
The era of the 'principal's letter' ends as the Ministry of Education centralises Senior School placement to curb corruption and fix a chaotic pathway allocation system. Parents have 24 hours left to appeal.
With only 13 per cent of candidates clearing all units, the latest mass failure at the Kenya School of Law has reopened old wounds regarding the quality of degrees and the fairness of the final hurdle.
**New figures reveal a stark geographical disparity in the distribution of top-tier public senior schools, turning the annual placement process into a high-stakes gamble for thousands of gifted students in underserved counties.**
Female law students have decisively outperformed their male colleagues in the November 2025 bar exams, a silver lining in a year marked by a troubling decline in overall pass rates and a persistent crisis in professional ethics.
