School head teachers will not be directly in charge of national exams unless the Ministry of Education amends the Kenya National Examinations Council Act, which places the supervisory role of the exams under staff hired by the council, a teachers union has said.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) secretary general Wilson Sossion said they have asked head teachers not to pick exam papers from collection points because exam management is not their role unless the law is changed.
Speaking yesterday at the first conference for head teachers of Special Needs Education schools at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Sossion also asked the Teachers Service Commission to hire more special needs teachers and award them special allowance.
“As a union, we support the recent exam reforms by the ministry but such reforms must be undertaken within the law and in a structured manner with consultations,” he said, adding; “But to make the head teachers to be exam supervisors whereby they will pick exam papers from collection centres and returning them is unlawfully unless the Knec Act is changed to allow that.
The intention is good but the formula is dangerous. The ministry is seeking a loophole to blame head teachers in case of malpractices. We are asking head teachers to stay in school and wait for supervisors to administer the exams.”
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