A total of 1.5 million candidates will sit this
year’s national examinations in primary and secondary schools
countrywide, the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) has said.
Some
449,246 candidates are from secondary schools while 844,475 candidates,
including 906 from the Southern Sudan, are registered to sit the Kenya
Certificate of Primary (KCPE) examinations.
According
to the Council Secretary Paul Wasanga, proper measures have been put in
place to ensure the examinations set to start from October 22 to
November 15, run smoothly.
He said the Kenya
Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations will be managed
by some 55,630 contracted professionals while some 132,691 others will
take care of the standard eight candidates.
The Council
Secretary there is adequate security personnel, supervisors,
invigilators and examiners to ensure the process is above board and they
have already briefed senior security officers on procedures for
managing the examinations.
He spoke at the Knec
headquarters in Nairobi during the launch of the 2013 national
examinations which also included the launch of the council’s Customer
Relations Management System (CRM), which is meant to fast track response
to customer concerns.
Mr Wasanga said the council
registered candidates in large scale under the on-line registration
program this year and expressed optimism that the exercise would be more
successful as the education sector embraces the Information
Communication Technology (ICT) integration in Education.
The
Council, he said, expected schools to start registration for 2014
candidates from November this year by providing their candidates bio
data online instead of waiting to do all the registration process, next
year.
“Registration fees will continue to be paid
between January and March of the year of examinations as has been the
case before,” said Mr Wasanga.
He further said the
council had designed online result slips for the 2013 KCPE and KCSE
candidates and schools will only be required to print the slips from the
council website, two weeks after the release of the national
examinations.
“The head teachers will just stamp, sign
and issue the result-slips to the respective candidates. Students with
issues can raise them within six weeks after the release of the
results,” Mr Wasanga said.
LAPTOP PROJECT
He added, “As an institution, we are moving the ICT way ahead of the government initiated laptop project. We shall now be releasing all the national examination results that we manage, online.”
He added, “As an institution, we are moving the ICT way ahead of the government initiated laptop project. We shall now be releasing all the national examination results that we manage, online.”
This
he observed would enhance efficiency as the waiting period would have
been significantly reduced besides ensuring concerns from parents,
students, and all those who manage the examinations are easily handled
through the automated system.
“Members of the public
can have their queries answered on time by just logging on the council’s
website under a tab known as Semanasi, instead of travelling to the
council offices,” he said.
Education principal
Secretary, Dr Belio Kipsang’ challenged Knec to work towards a system
where in future examinations would be done online as opposed to use of
paperwork.
“Particularly for the KCPE questions that
have multiple choices for a candidate to select, the system can generate
results immediately after the time for the examination is over,” Dr
Kipsang’ said.
He said continuous assessment tests
would be easily monitored through the automated systems instead of
relying on a one off examination to test the potential of a candidate.
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