Africa-Press – Kenya. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has announced a raft of measures to ensure that the 2021 national examinations will be conducted as per the Ministry of Education exams calendar.
KNEC CEO, David Njeng’ere, affirmed that the council has started training teachers on how to mark the exams.
In the case of primary school teachers, they would be trained as examiners in English Composition and Kiswahili Insha, while for secondary school teachers will be trained for English, Kiswahili, Biology, Chemistry, History and Government, Agriculture and Christian and Religious Education (CRE).
The tutors, once trained, will be incorporated into the council’s examiners database.
Further, the government would ensure strict adherence to the Ministry of Health guidelines on Covid-19 pandemic in order to prevent more disruption on the school calendar.
According to the Ministry of Education, KCPE exam will be taken between March 4, 2022 and March 9, 2022. KCSE examinations, on the other hand, will take place between February 28, 2022, and April 1, 2022.
Njeng’ere announced that 1,225,693 candidates have enrolled for KCPE 2021 whereas 831,026 enrolled for KCSE exams this year.
This represents a significant increase in terms of enrollment as compared to the 2020 national exams. 1,191,608 candidates sat for the KCPE 2020, meaning that 34,085 more candidates will sit for the 2021 exams – a 2.86 per cent increase.
78,424 more candidates will also sit the 2021 KCSE- a 10.42 per cent increase as compared to the previous year.
This comes as the Ministry of Education tightened measures to ensure the 100 per cent transition and ensure all students resume learning.
This has seen Education CS George Magoha as well as education stakeholders conducting door-door mop up exercise to trace all students not yet reported to secondary schools.
