Analyzing the first 2025 Kenya Junior School Education Assessment [KJSEA]. About 59 per cent of candidates qualified for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics [STEM] pathway while the other two-Social Sciences and Arts & Sports-had about 48 per cent qualifying.
Ministry statistics show that more than half of the learners 600,000 who sat the KJSEA selected STEM, while 437,000 chose Social Sciences and 124,000 Arts & Sports. And out this, Education CS Julius Ogamba said 51 per cent of learners have been placed in the STEM pathway, 38 per cent in Social Sciences and 11 per cent in the Arts and Sports.
And to qualify for STEM, for instance, learners required a minimum score of 20 while social sciences and sports and arts pathways required a minimum of 25 and yet STEM prevailed.
If this STEM positive performance holds on consistently. The dream of industrious Kenya will be actualized for establishment of industry require sound science knowledge.