KCSE results were released yesterday and the country saw the same diminishing returns in terms of grades above the magical cut-off mark. Many students will thus be unable to get into public universities that have the advantage of cheaper fees and most times boarding facilities.

So for the failures left out in the cold, they will either have to fork out expensive fees for parallel courses or join costly private universities. And you know how , with such a great economy!

Carren, Osingo Location Chief Mwai Odila told the Nation, jumped into a well located in their homestead on Wednesday night. Mr. Odila said the girl had repeated Form Four with an aim of getting a better grade. Mr. Odila said:

"She first sat her exams at Osingo Secondary before moving to a school in Kuria and still ended up getting the same grade."

Police later took the body to Migori County Referral Hospital mortuary.

Hundreds of thousands of this year’s Form Four leavers have been locked out of universities and other tertiary institutions. The results released on Wednesday indicate that only 70,073 out of the 611,952 candidates-just 11.5 percent-managed the minimum university entry qualification of mean grade C+.

My opinion. This is so tragic that teenagers believe that their lives are over at 18 if they have not got a grade that society considers a success.