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"speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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"content": "Kharar, Kutulo and Benane airlift them on account of anticipated security challenges on the ground. Finally, examination papers for the whole of Mandera County are flown into Mandera and Takaba airstrips then helicopters airlift them to Lafey, Rhamu, Banissa and Takaba containers as mitigation against anticipated security challenges in those areas. Examination papers for lower stretches of Garissa County are transported by road up to Garissa Town then they are airlifted to the containers of Hulugo, Bardo, Kamagia, and Fafi, which are adequate for the schools to collect in the area. On dispatch of materials, sub-county directors of education have been key in identifying and bringing to the attention of the Kenya National Examinations Council counties facing challenges and ways to mitigate them. The KNEC has ensured the installation of extra containers in areas where delivery of examinations poses a great challenge. I just want to highlight that the dispatch of the 2023 Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) materials was concluded on 15th October 2023. That included the dispatch of oral materials for KCSE. The deployment of field officers to be involved in the field administration of national examinations is quite important for Members to note. Yesterday, it was alleged that it is head teachers who are in charge of exams. Yes, they are centre managers. However, supervisors and invigilators are the authorised KNEC examination officers in charge of those centres. The administration of the centre is by the head teacher. I also want to note that we have statistics showing the category of supervisors. We have 19,000 for KCPE; 10,000 for KCSE; and another 1,477. The total number of supervisors is 30,000. All these are staff to administer the exams. Members, I think that is well. You will check the document. On the other issue, the KNEC has engaged the Teachers Service Commission, especially on the other personnel. We have security. I want to list the number of personnel involved in this for the Members to note. We have supervisors, invigilators, and centre managers who are principals and head teachers of schools. The total number of teachers is 294,983 who will man the exams. On security officers, we have almost 57,000 police officers. We have 7,029 drivers. We also have sub-county directors of education, deputy county commissioners, assistant county commissioners all the way to county commanders of police, sub-county commanders of police, TSC county directors, regional commanders of police, and all those officers. A multi- agency team will run examinations. The other issue that I want to bring to the attention of the Members is the briefing and sensitisation of field officers. It is a routine in exams across the country. Having been a teacher, this is done every other time from the national, regional and sub-county levels, all the way to the zonal level. This has been done. All the briefs were undertaken between 2nd October 2023 and 6th October 2023. In monitoring to ensure a smooth administration of quality assurance, these officers move across schools, counties, sub-counties, and even zones to ensure that the examination process is done. We have a list and agencies engaged in monitoring of national examinations. The officers listed here are 1,765. They are what we call roving officers. These officers move across to find out if everything is moving well. There is preparedness for the marking of examinations. I want to note that about 7,512 examiners were trained in 2023. In this regard, the data for trained examiners and other examiners on the database has been forwarded to the TSC for vetting in readiness for the engagement. This was very important during making the report we laid on the Table of this House. We directed the Ministry of Education to ensure that every examiner is vetted on morality, integrity and ethics so that they can give the right marks. I thank them because they have done as directed by the Committee. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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