School heads warned against registering foreign learners without KNEC approval.
While addressing school heads and examination center managers from both Thika East and Thika West sub-counties during this year’s KCPE and KCSE exams briefing at Thika High School on Wednesday, Phillip Kimanthi, an official from KNEC said that all international students applying for admission into the Kenyan Education System had to undergo some placement test administered by KNEC in order to ascertain their appropriate class levels in accordance with the Kenyan curriculum.
He added that no
private exam centres would be allowed to register less than 20 candidates
and institutions with less students must either register with another
institution or be hosted in the sub-county as private candidates.
Kimanthi also
cautioned the teachers against laxity during the exam period advising them to
be proactive to avoid being caught up by avoidable irregularities while the exams
were in progress.
“You should identify
risk areas well in advance and think them over in order to prepare yourself in
case of any eventualities. I would also like to caution exams managers against
indulging in alcoholism during the exercise as this will affect their
effectiveness,” said Kimanthi.
He also cautioned
them against blindly accepting too much hospitality from their hosts as mischievous
school proprietors or heads might trick them into compromising the exams
supervision.
The occasion was
attended by Thika West DCC Douglas Mutai and his Thika East counterpart Thomas
Senkei, senior officers from the education ministry and security chiefs from
both sub-counties.
This year’s national
examinations calendar indicates that the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education
(KCPE) tests will begin on October 30.
Rehearsals for the
three-day examinations will be held on October 29 and the papers will end on November
1.
The Kenya
Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations will be done between
November 2 and 28.
A total of 1.6
million candidates will write this year's Form Four and Standard Eight exams with
some 1.06 million pupils sitting for KCPE exams and another 663,820 for the KCSE
tests.
323,113 girls and
340,707 boys have registered as KCSE candidates this year, while 529,124 girls
and 531,668 boys are listed for KCPE.
Mathematics and
chemistry will be done on the first day of the KCSE written papers.
Home science,
woodwork and computer studies will complete the KCPE examinations on November
28.
Last year, a total of 1.5 million candidates registered for
the two examinations. Some 993,718 sat for KCPE and another 611,952 did the
KCSE tests.
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