Education CS To Meet Interior and ICT CS To Implement Measures To Curb Exam Cheating
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu is set to meet interior CS Kithure Kindiki and ICT CS Eliud Owalo to lay down strategies to Curb cheating of this year’s national examinations.
The three Cabinet secretaries are scheduled to meet tomorrow to oversee the start of this year’s national examinations.
The meeting is meant to look at a series strategic changes are in the pipeline to ensure the secure administration of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations.
On the other hand the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) is on with implementing measures to close any potential loopholes that could jeopardise the integrity of the examinations.
Education CS Ezekiel Machogu will meet his counterparts, Kithure Kindiki (Interior) and Eliud Owalo (ICT) Monday and will take place at the Knec head office.
CS Machogu is expected to provide in-depth information about the three national examinations set to be administered to a record 3.5 million students.
Data from Knec shows some more than 1.2 million students will sit the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA), while another 1.4 million will take KCPE exam and 903,260 to take the KCSE exam.
This will be the last KCPE examination under the 8-4-4 education system.
According to the KNEC chief executive offer adjustments will be made in the transportation of KCSE papers, particularly those scheduled for the afternoon session, to curb any early exposure of examination materials.
Schools will receive morning examiners and afternoon papers will be collected from the container in after the first paper.
This change will primarily focus on KCSE examinations, as they have been identified as the most susceptible to early exposure.
Furthermore, the government has increased the number of storage containers by 82, bringing the total to 576. Schools have also been remapped to facilitate easier access to the nearest storage container.
Education CS To Meet Interior and ICT CS To Implement Measures To Curb Exam Cheating
