KNEC Changes Tune on Collecting Exams from Container
Centre Managers and Exam Supervisors responsible for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) will retrieve the exam papers twice daily from the designated containers. The government has altered the collection process for the 2023 KCSE examination papers. In contrast, the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) papers will continue to be collected once daily, as it was previously.
The KCSE exams are scheduled to begin on 23/10/2023 and conclude on 24/11/2023 with Physics practicals. David Njengere, the CEO of the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), has stated that 1,143 containers will be utilized to store KPSEA, KCPE, and KCSE exams. Specifically, 576 distribution centers or containers will be used to store KPSEA and KCPE examinations, and 567 containers will be allocated for the distribution of KCSE papers. To facilitate the process, 82 additional containers have been acquired, particularly for 13 newly created sub-counties that previously lacked containers.
Education CS Ezekiel Machogu has announced that exam papers will now be collected twice a day, in the morning and in the afternoon, as a measure to reduce the risk of papers being exposed to students before the exams, thus curbing cheating. This change was revealed during the 46th Kessha annual national conference in Mombasa, where Kenya Secondary School Heads Association chairman Indimuli Kahi called for assurance that there would be no paper leakage in 2023. He also raised the possibility of emulating the system in Swaziland, where principals hold the papers for a week.
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On the topic of trust, Basic Education PS Belio Kipsang acknowledged the trust deficit in Kenya that makes it challenging to adopt systems like those in Swaziland. Kipsang also highlighted that students only have armed security during national exams, not during school-based internal exams.
Additionally, Kessha chairperson Indimuli Kahi called for a review of the student grading system, emphasizing how the current system might disadvantage students with good grammar but difficulties in analyzing literature.
KNEC Changes Tune on Collecting Exams from Container
