Teachers participating in the supervision of KCPE and KCSE examinations of previous years will have to wait longer to pay the examiner.
A total of 242,406 teachers were contracted by the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) to assist in the monitoring and marking of the 2021 National Examinations.
Delays by Knec in paying teachers who supervise and supervise examinations have been opposed by teachers on various platforms.
Some teachers have threatened not to take part in the exercise again if Knec fails to pay them immediately.
Sources close to the council, however, have revealed that there is no payment for the teachers who conduct the examinations.
Knec has so far paid only teachers who were involved in marking KCPE and KCSE exams.
According to our sources, the money will be paid into the teachers’ account from June next month.
Those listed for payment include contracted professionals including center managers (principals and head teachers), supervisors, invigilators and security personnel.
A week ago, Treasury CAS Eric Wafukho assured teachers that the money to pay them for supervising the exams was already planned for and that there should be no panic as everything will be taken care of.
Wafukho said the government through the Treasury rolled out financing of the whole examination activities including paying teachers, drivers and security personnel.
According to payment details released by the Council, primary school heads who act as Centre Managers for the KCPE exams pocket a daily subsistence allowance of Sh500 for a total of 4 days including rehearsal day.
Secondary school Principals on the other hand, earn a daily allowance of Sh500 for 18 days.
The highest paid Supervisor walks away with a sum total of sh12,510 while the highest paid invigilator gets sh 9860.
The examiner does not pay deputy head teachers and principals despite being present at the school present during the examination period as assistant Centre Managers.
Knec also does not include for payment teachers handling science subjects who prepare and administer practicals during the KCSE examinations.
KNEC 2022 PAYMENT RATES FOR CONTRACTED PROFESSIONALS
Contracted Professional Exam Region Pay Per Day Total Days engaged Total Pay
Centre Manager KCPE All Regions Sh500 4 Sh2,000
Centre Manager KCSE All Regions Sh500 18 Sh9,000
Invigilators KCPE All Regions Sh538 3 Sh1,615
Invigilators KCSE Nairobi & Mombasa Sh580 17 Sh9,860
Invigilators KCSE Other Regions Sh460 17 Sh7,820
Supervisors KCPE All Regions Sh621 4 Sh2,485
Supervisors KCSE Nairobi & Mombasa Sh695 18 Sh12,510
Supervisors KCSE Other Regions Sh630 18 Sh11,340
Security Officers KCSE All Regions Sh420 16 Sh6,720
Drivers KCSE All Regions Sh405 16 Sh6,480
A total of 70,486 teachers who were vetted by the by the Commission administered the KCSE examination.
A total of 831,015 candidates registered for the KCSE examination which were administered in 10,413 centres.
The examination papers and other materials were served from 483 distribution centres.
The council registered 1,225,507 KCPE candidates in 28,316 examination centres which were served from 491 distribution centres.
Knec merged centres that had less than 30 candidates to cut down on the cost of logistics. This affected 151 centres whose candidates were hosted elsewhere.
Knec had invited teachers in March to apply for the marking exercise. KCPE examiners were to apply from 4th March while those marking KCSE from 14th March.
Knec trained another batch of examiners for marking of KCPE and KCSE exams in October last year
