The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has given teachers until September 26 to register on its CP2 system if they wish to supervise or invigilate this year’s national examinations.
In a circular released by acting CEO Evaleen Mitei, the Commission outlined new guidelines for teachers taking part in the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA), the Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA), and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), all scheduled for October and November.
According to TSC, only teachers who are qualified, employed, and registered with the Commission will be eligible for selection.
Registration must be completed through CP2 the Competency Portal 2 an online platform used to manage teachers contracted for short-term roles during national examinations.
Through the system, teachers can be nominated, vetted, and deployed as centre managers, supervisors, invigilators, and examiners.
However, those selected will not be allowed to serve in schools they have been affiliated with in the last three years, to avoid conflict of interest.
This year’s assessment calendar is packed. KPSEA for Grade 6 learners will run from October 27 to October 30, while KJSEA will start on October 27 and end on November 6. The KCSE examinations will kick off on November 3 and conclude on November 21.
The Commission has also set out strict requirements for different roles. For instance, supervisors for KCSE must be serving secondary school teachers with at least a diploma in education, preferably senior teachers or heads of department.
Invigilators for KCSE will be drawn from primary school teachers with at least three years’ experience.
At the KJSEA level, supervisors must be serving secondary school teachers with a diploma, while invigilators must have at least three years of teaching experience and prior involvement in national exam supervision.
KPSEA supervisors must also be serving primary school teachers with three years’ experience and prior invigilation.
Teachers taking part in the process will be required to declare any interests they may have in their assigned centres. Declaration forms will be sent to sub-county directors.
To tighten accountability, TSC says KCSE supervisors will be rotated weekly, while only supervisors will be present during oral and practical exams to limit unnecessary personnel and protect exam integrity.
The guidelines also spell out deployment ratios: one supervisor for every 200 KCSE candidates and one invigilator for every 20 learners.
Centres hosting both KPSEA and KJSEA candidates will have independent supervisors if each has at least 30 candidates.
For visually impaired learners, at least one invigilator familiar with Braille will be assigned to their centres.
Meanwhile, learners under the stage-based pathway will be invigilated by their own teachers at a ratio of one invigilator per 10 learners, with no centre managers or supervisors deployed to those centres.
TSC emphasised that the new measures are designed to safeguard transparency, fairness, and credibility in the management of this year’s examinations.
