Education CS George Magoha has announced five new measures to curb cheating in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams.
In a press statement issued on Sunday, CS Magoha noted that after sealing all the loopholes of leaking examinations, a few scrupulous people have over the last five years devised a new dirty trick of opening examination packages a few minutes before the start time, in what we call the “early exposure”.
According to the CS, the said individuals use mobile phones to take photographs of a few or all the examination questions before sneaking them out of the examination centres to waiting-hired people who thereafter tackle the questions before smuggling the “answers” back to the candidates.
The CS said that a combined team of DCI investigators and Ministry of Education officials had exposed this racket and have arrested masterminds of the early exposure schemes.
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Magoha also announced fresh measures to all centre managers and examination officials of all centres as follows;
(a) All school gates must be kept wide open throughout the day’s examination hours to allow ease of monitoring of all processes.
(b) Security officers must sit at positions where they have a full view of the examination materials for the second daily paper as the morning paper is underway.
(c) Supervisors and invigilators must not take any time off from the examination rooms for any other activity while examinations are in progress.
(d) Centre managers must not allow any unauthorised teacher(s) or staff to hang around the precincts of the school compounds during the examination season. Only teachers handling practical subjects will be allowed in examination centres during the days the subjects are taken.
(e) Mobile phones must not be allowed at the examination centre except one for the centre manager, and one for the security officer, both of which should be kept at the centre manager's office in case of any emergency.
The 2021 KCSE examination involving 831,015 candidates enters the second week tomorrow.
