Secondary school principals have been warned against influencing the choice of supervisors to be posted to their schools for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).
This is the position taken by the just concluded meeting between Teachers Service Commission (TSC) secretariat and the Kenya National Examination Council’s (KNEC) senior management.
The KNEC team was led by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. David Njengere as field officers represented TSC.
It was resolved further that supervisors will be reshuffled on a weekly basis, with all leaves of absence and other activities concerning teachers being suspended during the examination period.
This is because it was also resolved that all secondary school teachers will be involved in the KCSE examination, putting those not enlisted to manage the exams on standby for the exam period.
However, only one deputy principal, for the case of those schools with more than one, will be allowed in school during the examination while teachers who reside in staff quarters will be expected to stay away from the examination centres.
Only Form Four teachers will be allowed in school to conduct practicals after it emerged that during examination, it was normal practice to engage teachers on Board of Management (BoM) terms.
However, the principals have been ordered to submit the list of all the examination personnel for endorsement by both the TSC and the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) sub-county Directors of Education, before displaying the list in the principal’s office for the entire KCSE period.
In this year’s national examinations, KNEC will deploy 71,760 centre managers, who are principals and head teachers – the only personnel alongside their deputy centre managers to collect examination papers twice daily.
KNEC has remapped all examination centres to the nearest distribution points to enable every school to pick its examination papers more efficiently.
A total of 223,223 teachers have been vetted to work as supervisors and invigilators while an additional 37,731 will serve as examiners.
KNEC will use 576 containers for storage of Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) and KCPE examinations, and 567 for KCSE.
An additional 82 containers will facilitate storage for 13 newly created sub-counties.
This comes few days after the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) threatened to boycott the exercise if their demand for better and timely payment for services is not met.
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