Govt Changes How National Exams Will Be Manned. Belio Kipsang is the principal secretary for basic education. He has declared that the government plans to stop sending police officers to administer exams nationwide.
He was speaking on Thursday, April 25, at the College of Insurance in South C, Nairobi County, at the Annual Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) Symposium on Competency-Based Assessment (CBA). Kipsang stressed that the goal of this directive was to create an environment that would allow young learners to perform to the best of their abilities during assessments.
Kipsang made it clear that the forthcoming national exams would implement this new strategy.
“Now is the best moment to modify the way we conduct evaluations. If police officers show up in assessment rooms this year, I’ll be shocked. It’s time to give our kids space to be themselves. He asserted.
At exam centers, police personnel are currently stationed to support invigilators, maintain security, and avert any disturbances. Critics counter that their presence might frighten the students.
Only invigilators and supervisors were permitted to handle exam papers. This is as the government outlawed police officers from doing so in 2021.
Govt Changes How National Exams Will Be Manned
Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) David Njeng’ere of KNEC also made additional announcements. This is including the distribution of Grade 9 assessment samples to specific schools.
In order to get ready for the Grade 9 summative assessment, we will be creating instruments for a trial that will take place in June in selected schools.
We will provide example papers by October so that all junior school students are acquainted with the Grade 9 evaluation procedure, according to Njeng’ere.
Additionally, the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) training program for teachers was announced by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
The TSC emphasized that in order to carry out the program successfully, it works with partners like KNEC, KICD, KISE, and academic institutions.
Ps. Kipsang added that in order to accommodate the first class of Grade 9 students in 2025, the government will provide 16,000 new classrooms.