Education CS George Magoha on Saturday, October 26, intensified surveillance in efforts geared towards nabbing cheating in the national exams.
Magoha singled out supervisors and invigilators of the exams as conspirators in the scheme to render KCSE and KCPE examinations an unfair exercise.
"Some schools instructed teachers to hover around examination centres in the guise of being cooks, watchmen or other subordinate staff. Upon opening of the papers, questions are then quickly sneaked to the teachers who try to smuggle the answers into the test halls,” Prof Magoha revealed.
The CS also stated that key of the methods used in stealing the exams stems in during early exposure of the second paper of the day.
Exam officials, according to the CS, open the papers meant for the mid-morning session early in the day so that questions can leak and answers sent to exam rooms.
Magoha also added that a section of supervisors and invigilators collude to have some of the papers transported from the containers in private vehicles rather than the designated government vehicles.
This, according to Prof Magoha led to tampering of the tests.
"The Ministry is aware of plans by centre managers to retain teachers employed by boards of management to aid in cheating. Those with such plans have been identified and are being monitored,” Mogoha declared after he issued a strict warning to parents, teachers and the students sitting for national exams.
The Daily Nation reported that in 2018, examination results in 16 counties were cancelled after the Ministry of Education linked the performances to exam irregularities.
