Teachers who worked on the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) last year may have to wait longer to get paid.
According to people close to the Council, Knec is having trouble raising money to pay the experts it hired for last year’s tests and evaluations.
According to sources, the financial situation is grave, and Treasury has indicated that these payments will be made in June or July.
Knec hires experts each year to assist in administering national tests and evaluations.
Teachers, drivers, and security guards are among the professionals contacted. Teachers have contracts as invigilators, supervisors, and center managers.
Knec does not pay for services rendered by Centre Managers, Supervisors and Invigilators but pays for transport reimbursement.
In last years administration of national exams and assessments teachers will receive slightly different pay.
Knec revised upward the amount it pays its contracted professionals after protests from secondary school teachers.
Each invigilator and centre manager will get sh 550 per day as transport reimbursement while each supervisor will get sh 680 per day.
The changes followed after demands from secondary school teachers for increased allowances to officiate the KCSE examinations, which begun on October 22, 2024.
Through the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet), the teachers asked for their out-of-workstation allowances to be raised by between 750 and 900 per cent.
In a letter to Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba, Kuppet Secretary-General Akello Misori proposed a new rate of Sh3,000 per day for invigilators, up from Sh400 per day (a 750 per cent rise).
The union wanted supervisors to be paid 3,500 per day from the Sh450 they are used to get (a 778 per cent rise) and Sh4,500 for principals, who also act as examination centre managers during the examination period.
“Our members have vowed to reject the current remuneration structure during the upcoming examinations. As the Cabinet secretary in charge of the Kenya National Examination’s Council (Knec) budget, we urge you to facilitate the council in compensating teachers as provided under the Human Resource Policies and Procedures Manual for the Public Service, which is the applicable benchmark across the government,” said Mr Misori in the letter.
KPSEA SUPERVISORS
sh 680 per day for 3 days equals sh 2,040
KPSEA INVIGILATORS
sh 550 per day for 3 days equals sh 1,680
KCSE SUPERVISORS
sh 680 per day for 16 days equals sh 10,880
KCSE INVIGILATORS
sh 550 per day for 16 days equals sh 8,800
CENTRE MANAGERS
sh 550 per day for both KPSEA and KCSE