Kenya National Examination Council should streamline payments for teachers

While threatening to boycott examinations marking last year, the Kenya National Union of Teachers said it would withdraw the services of teachers from the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), unless KNEC was disbanded.

At the time there were legitimate concerns that KNEC had failed to live up to expectation and was blamed for the rampant cases of exam cheating. Indeed, the examination body could not explain how papers in its custody found their way to schools in advance of the national exams. Teachers were also not happy with the examination body for holding onto their payment for too long.