Parents were put on the spot for paying as much as Ksh10,000 to facilitate acquiring of national exams leakage for 2018 national school tests.
Kenya National Examinations Council chairman George Magoha revealed that some rogue teachers had already started receiving and asking money from parents to help cheat during the national exams.
Professor Magoha cautioned parents and guardians during a briefing on preparations for this year’s primary and secondary school national exams, stating those who had paid were conned.
Echoing Professor Magoha's sentiments, Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed stated: “Children cannot go out to buy examination materials.”
The CS added: “It’s the teachers and parents who are facilitating this practice, but we want to assure that the examination will be credible and no one will have access to the real materials before the right time.”
In an effort to curb cheating, the Ministry of Education announced new radical measures that will punish students, their teachers and schools should any impropriety be confirmed.
Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang stated the answer scripts of candidates who will cheat in whichever way will not be marked.
Additionally, any institution caught cheating will be deregistered, and the offending teachers and other officials arrested for prosecution.
CS Mohamed announced that all examination centres will be secured using both the visible presence of uniformed policemen and the invisible eye of State surveillance apparatus.
About 1.7 million candidates will sit the examinations in 2018; 1,060,787 of them for KCPE while 663,811 for KCSE exams which will be administered in 10,075 centres across the country.
