Editor's Review

The new changes target invigilators, examination papers and the 2024 KCSE candidates.

The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has introduced new measures for the administration of KCSE 2024. 

Speaking during the launch of the measures on Friday, October 4, KNEC CEO David Njengere alongside other senior government officials explained that the new measures were introduced to safeguard the integrity of national examination.

For starters, the government will introduce a rotation timetable for all invigilators throughout the country. Through this, no invigilator will be allowed to be at one school for over a week.

Additionally, all invigilators will be banned from having phones at the examination centres.

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File image of Education CS Julius Ogamba and KNEC CEO David Ngenjere.

"The Teachers Service Commission has deployed competent officers who are capable of ensuring a smooth administration of this year’s examinations/assessments. No one will be deployed to centres where they have interests," TSC Director of Staffing Antonina Lentoijoni announced.

On the other hand, the KNEC CEO revealed that question papers would be personalised for each student. This measure is aimed at curbing cheating during the examination and marking.

"This measure is expected to boost exam security by anonymizing answer scripts during the marking process. The KCSE question papers will be personalized for every candidate," Ngenjere revealed.

"This will help anonymise the answer scripts during marking. More details on this innovation will be shared with supervisors and invigilators during the Sub-County briefing sessions."

On his part, Education CS Julius Ogamba maintained that the government would take all measures necessary to deal with individuals caught cheating in the upcoming examinations.

He assured the country that the government institutions had adequately prepared themselves to oversee the administration of the national examinations.

“The government shall have no mercy on anyone who will be found engaging in examinations malpractices. When we compromise our examination, we compromise the standards of our certificates,” the CS stated.

This year, there are 965,501 KCSE candidates across 10,565 centres.