Knut calls for fair marking of national exams

A teacher’s union want Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) to ensure fair grading in the national examination set to start next week.

Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion in a statement said fair grading will ensure that candidates achieve their ambitions and dreams of proceeding to higher learning institutions.

“The 140,000 vacancies in all public universities this time round ought to be filled by local students,” said Mr Sossion.

He also asked Knec to put in place appropriate measures to ensure no exam leakages and cheating occurs.

At the same time the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia lauded the 321,007 teachers in primary and secondary schools for their commitment and hard work throughout the year in preparing the 1.6million candidates for the examination.

Mrs Macharia urged the 30,184 principals and headteachers who will be centre managers to ensure smooth administration of the examinations.

A total of 1,060,759 candidates will sit for Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) starting Tuesday and 664,586 will write Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) starting November 5.

A total of 459 containers will be used to store the examination materials.

According to Education cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed, centres found culpable of cheating, condoning, or aiding in cheating will be disqualified from this year’s examinations.