Payment of KCSE 2022 Examiners and Invigilators Shortfall
Payment of KCSE 2022 Examiners and Invigilators Shortfall. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) is currently unsure of how to pay invigilators because it hasn’t yet received enough funds to pay its 2022 examiners and invigilators.
The Council has only received a total of Sh. 675 million from the National Treasury to pay the teachers who conducted and evaluated the national exams.
This is not enough to pay the more than 40,000 instructors who took part in the tests, as Knec has been appealing with the Treasury to do.
Up till now, Knec has been paying the consultants that KPSEA and KCPE have engaged. The teachers and other staff members who observed and supervised the ECDE teacher tests were also recently paid by the examiner.
According to Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang, who appeared before the Senate House Education Committee in February, Knec requires Sh1 billion to compensate the more than 40,000 examiners who worked the 2022 tests.
He also said that Knec had until August to pay the teachers, and that the money would be used to the fiscal year 2023-2024.
We have till August to pay the teachers, he said. For the purpose of paying teachers who marked exams, the government needs Ksh 1 billion.
The Kispsang committee showed up after the Senate demanded an explanation from KNEC regarding the nonpayment of instructors who observed, invigilated, and graded the 2022 national exams.
Once exam results have been finished and made public, it is Knec policy to pay its employed professionals, including those who work as teachers, security guards, and drivers.
Payment of KCSE 2022 Examiners and Invigilators Shortfall
Every year, Knec employs teachers to work as invigilators, supervisors, center managers, and examiners/markers for the administration of national exams.
For the exams and assessments in 2022, a total of 28,408 teachers were employed as center administrators, 28,727 as supervisors, 74,990 as invigilators, and 5,647 as examiners.
The government’s empty coffers were cited as the reason for the Knec payment delay. The government couldn’t pay the obligation since it was bankrupt.
A full payout to the counties as well as NHIF payments have been made, and the treasury is now stable and has distributed funds.
Legislators on the House Education Committee suggested creating a separate budget to pay the teachers who supervise students during testing.