KNEC Will not Pay Deputy School Heads
Deputy primary school headteachers will not receive travel expenses stipends from Knec, which are typically provided to contracted professionals, including teachers, drivers, and security personnel. A Knec official has indicated that deputy school heads won’t be eligible for these allowances because they do not incur travel expenses during the KCPE and KPSEA examination periods.
Knec compensates teachers who serve as supervisors, invigilators, and center managers for these national exams. These teachers are also contracted as examiners for the marking of these examinations. In this year’s exams, deputy headteachers were assigned the role of center managers for the grade 6 KPSEA exams.
A new rule introduced this year mandated that deputy headteachers remain in the school during the KCPE and KPSEA exams, a departure from the previous practice where they were not required to be on the school compound during these exams. Consequently, many deputy headteachers had previously applied and been contracted as supervisors and invigilators for the national exams.
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However, since the deputy headteachers were not required to register their details on the Knec CP2 platform, they will not receive payment for these roles.
KNEC Will not Pay Deputy School Heads
Here are the payment rates for contracted professionals for the 2023 exams:
– Centre Manager (KCPE/KPSEA, All Regions): Sh500 per day, totaling Sh2,000 for 4 days.
– Centre Manager (KCSE, All Regions): Sh500 per day, totaling Sh9,000 for 18 days.
– Invigilators (KCPE/KPSEA, All Regions): Sh538 per day, totaling Sh1,615 for 3 days.
– Invigilators (KCSE, Nairobi & Mombasa): Sh580 per day, totaling Sh9,860 for 17 days.
– Invigilators (KCSE, Other Regions): Sh460 per day, totaling Sh7,820 for 17 days.
– Supervisors (KCPE/KPSEA, All Regions): Sh621 per day, totaling Sh2,485 for 4 days.
– Supervisors (KCSE, Nairobi & Mombasa): Sh695 per day, totaling Sh12,510 for 18 days.
– Supervisors (KCSE, Other Regions): Sh630 per day, totaling Sh11,340 for 18 days.
– Security Officers (KCSE, All Regions): Sh420 per day, totaling Sh6,720 for 16 days.
– Drivers (KCSE, All Regions): Sh405 per day, totaling Sh6,480 for 16 days.
During the examination period, Knec implemented measures to restrict the number of people allowed inside exam centers, primarily to prevent exam malpractices. Only specific individuals were authorized to be in the examination centers during the KPSEA, KCPE, and KCSE exam periods, including the Centre Manager, Deputy Principal/Headteacher, Supervisor(s), Invigilator(s), Gatekeeper, Laboratory technician, and science teacher (only during practicals), and authorized support staff responsible for preparing meals for candidates who remained in the kitchen.
In the most recent examinations, approximately 1,415,315 candidates sat for the KCPE exam, while another 1,282,574 took the grade 6 KPSEA exams.
