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AG Kihara tells off CS Amina over new TTC entry grades

Kihara Kariuki and Amina Mohamed

Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has suffered a major blow in her attempts to lower entry grades to teacher training colleges after Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki told her she has no such powers.
The AG said only the Teachers Service Commission is mandated to prescribe the entry qualifications and fell short of revoking the recent admission of thousands of students into colleges with lower grades.
The development is a major victory for the TSC which had rejected the plan and to sought the AG's advice who ruled that the CS had no role in determining the entry grade.
'MARGINALISED'
Ms Mohamed last month ordered that the grades for diploma courses be lowered from Kenya certificate of Secondary Education C+ to C- and for certificates from C to D.
Thousands of students were absorbed by the colleges, which were hungry for students due to poor performance in national examinations for the last 

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