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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "stations to offer services in other stations. All head teachers who are professionally contracted by KNEC as examiners, monitoring officers and trainers are all entitled to payment. It is against the Government policy for officers to receive extra allowances while they are at their workstations. An assessment is part of the normal work routine at their workstation. Therefore, they are required to supervise and mark their students’ projects as normal teaching as per their syllabus. He also sought to know what KNEC is planning in order to provide decent accommodation for the examiners instead of school dormitories. Hon. Speaker, KNEC provides the best possible accommodation to examiners it can afford with a limited budget. Therefore, the funds available are not adequate to host examiners in hotels. However, examiners are accommodated at special marking centres with required accommodation facilities and they are also given special meals commensurate to what they are used to at home. He also sought to know what measures have been put in place by KNEC to ensure prompt payment of examiners and invigilators immediately after the examinations are completed and marked respectively. KNEC has taken appropriate action to ensure that all payments for supervision and marking are made after the release of results as part of the contract. Processing of supervision payments involves verification, validation and confirmation to ensure payment to the right accounts. That process takes a minimum of two months hence payments are made in March and April. KNEC is registering all contracted personnel online so that they can ensure efficiency. Once the process is complete, KNEC will be able to link payment with all the registration data instead of doing it manually. The hon. Member also sought to know what plans KNEC has to have the review of papers, script allowances for examiners annually vis-à-vis the rising cost of living. Hon. Speaker, script fees are reviewed after every two or three years depending on the availability of funds. Rates for scripts can only be increased subject to availability of funds. Finally, he asked for reasons that led to stoppage of reimbursement of travel expenses for teachers attending training of examiners and marking sessions. Hon. Speaker, training not being a core function of the Council, KNEC partners with the Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) to offer training, which is part of capacity building. That mandate falls under KEMI. KNEC has no funds for training of examiners and, therefore, trainees are required to pay a fee at a subsidized cost. The certificate gained by trainees after successful completion of the course is recognized by TSC for promotion of teachers. Therefore, there is a growing demand by teachers to train as examiners and KNEC was not able to cope with the demand. Not all teachers who train as examiners intend to work for the Council. Therefore, the training set-up does not place them under any obligation to serve under KNEC. Hon. Speaker, with your permission, hon. Ogalo, Member of Parliament for Rangwe Constituency had also requested to know something with regard to people who registered for the 2013 KCPE, and who had been banned by KNEC from sitting for the examination, and what measures had been put in place to ensure that such pupils are not banned from sitting the examination. I wish to respond as follows:- 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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