By AUGUSTINE ODUOR
Candidates whose KCPE results will be cancelled tomorrow may wait for another three years to re-sit the national examinations.
And any examination results cancelled will not be subjected to re-assessment, Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) Chief Executive Paul Wasanga said yesterday.
Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi will tomorrow release results for the 844,475 pupils who sat this year’s KCPE in 23,819 centres.
The Knec Act provides under Section 32 that candidates who take part in examination irregularities shall have their results cancelled and will be barred from taking examinations for a period not exceeding three years.
This provision will now be enforced once the proposed Knec regulations are gazetted in January, said Prof Kaimenyi.
The Teachers Service Commission will also punish teachers who participate in examination irregularities.
Wasanga said once the regulations go through in Parliament, teachers and examiners who leak examination material to candidates will face action.
“We have asked stakeholders to submit their input before January 3 so that we can incorporate their views before the regulations are taken to Parliament,” said Wasanga.
The draft Knec regulations, however, say that candidates will have 30 days to apply to the council to review the decision to cancel the results.
“Where the council is satisfied that a candidate has been involved in examination irregularity or malpractice, the council may take any other action it may deem proper under the Act or any other written law,” reads the regulations in part.
The rules say that an application for a review of cancelled results decision shall be made in writing and shall indicate clearly the grounds for requesting the review.
“The council shall, upon receiving an application, consider the application and respond in writing to the applicant within 30 days,” the rules state.
Wasanga said yesterday that candidates and schools that were involved in examination irregularities would have their results canceled.
This year’s examination saw teachers, supervisors and security agents as the main perpetrators of exam cheating. The Knec Act sets out stringent penalties of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding one million shillings, for persons involved directly or indirectly in examination irregularities.
