KNEC Responds To Teachers Over KCSE Supervision Pay Rise

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) responded to hundreds of academics contracted to supervise and mark the continuing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education(KCSE) after it declared that their allowances is not going to be elevated

According to KNEC Chief Executive Officer David Njengere, he maintained that the demand raised by the academics and invigilators wouldn’t be granted decrying budgetary constraints.

“Last 12 months, we elevated these charges and that was after nearly 5 years of getting the earlier charges. So in fact, we respect the work that the invigilators do and each time the finances permits us, we can even be prepared to extend these charges,’’ Njengere said.

“For now, we’ll persist with the charges that had been elevated final 12 months as a result of the finances is not going to enable us to extend the charges for this 12 months,’’ he added.

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Earlier earlier than the start of KCSE, academics, by way of the Kenya Union of Primary and Post-Primary Education Teachers(KUPPET), demanded a 10-fold enhance within the remuneration awarded to the supervisor, invigilators, and middle managers.

KUPPET officers, on the time, revealed that the allowances prolonged to the person academics had been too small to facilitate them with the prevailing financial circumstances.

KUPPET has been on the forefront of the push for higher compensation, submitting a proper request in September to Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba advocating for every day charges of Ksh3,000 for invigilators, Ksh3,500 for supervisors, and Ksh4,500 for principals who handle examination facilities.

On October 30 this 12 months, the academics argued that the federal government has restricted them to increased pay regardless of their sacrifices in guaranteeing the graceful administration and marking of examinations throughout the nation.

The academics introduced that they’ll now demand the federal government to pay them Ksh6,000 per day, up from the present Ksh600.

‘’We are telling the federal government that academics who’re invigilating and supervising(the examinations) are underpaid. A supervisor is paid Ksh600 a day, which is lower than the cash paid to somebody who works within the casual sector corresponding to a building handyman,’’ Joseph Abincha, KUPPET Kisii Branch General Secretary, said.

‘’We are telling the federal government, we’re not telling the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) that the academics are usually not going for use to offer free companies,’’ he added.

In October this 12 months, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Collins Oyuu, additionally confirmed that their efforts to have interaction the federal government on the increment had been met with delays.

“The government has yet to address our demands. Teachers are growing impatient,” Oyuu remarked.

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