Rejected examiners challenge KNEC to fire centre managers as well

The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examiners whose contracts were terminated over exam cheating in their schools have challenged exams body Knec to fire exam centre managers and supervisors who oversighted the malpractices.

The examiners drawn from schools in Kakamega and Bungoma counties where incidents of exam malpractices were reported, claimed Knec unfairly targeted them for exam breaches overseen by principals and exam supervisors.

The group (names withheld) consisting of deputy principals and teachers also accused the education Ministry and Teachers Services Commission (TSC) of protecting principal found culpable in exam malpractices.

They wondered why Knec spared the principals in the latest purge. In unprecedented move, Knec last week delisted thousands of examiners who are teachers in schools where KCSE 2024 exam malpractices happened.

In Kakamega county alone, Knec expunged names of at least 150 examiners due to the malpractices. Knec CEO David Njengere said retiring the examiners was to protect integrity within exam marking centres, and to prepare the scripts for further scrutiny.

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21 examiners from a school in Western decried termination of their Knec contracts insisting they are innocent as only the principal and three teachers were allowed in school during the exams period.

“Whenever TSC reshuffles principals, it does it in a manner that rewards those known to have cheated in a previous station. such reshuffles only succeed in rotating the exam vices as the principal shifts from one school to another”, an examiner claimed.

By our reporter

The writer teaches English and Literature in Gatundu North sub-county.

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