Primary school teachers will oversee invigilation of the 2025 Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA), Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.

For the first time the teachers will exclusively invigilate the KCSE exams after the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) issued new rules to guide this years national exams and assessments.

According to Knec, only primary school teachers are to be deployed as KCSE invigilators assisted by secondary school teachers who are to be assigned supervision roles.

Primary school teachers will also work as KPSEA and KJSEA invigilators and supervisors assisted by the junior school teachers.

Already Knec unveiled the number of teachers who will work as invigilators, supervisors and centre managers.

In a statement Knec CEO David Njengere said this years KCSE exams will have 10,765 centre managers, 12,126 supervisors and 54,782 invigilators.

The exams which start on 21st October will be manned by a total of 22,247 security officers and 2,692 drivers will be used to transport it to and from the exam centres.

This comes at a time when contracted teachers are set to attend Knec briefings early this week.

Knec further listed a total of 24,213 centre managers incharge of centres that will have both KPSEA and KJSEA.

A total of 26,479 supervisors and 125,492 invigilators will administer the 2025 KPSEA and KJSEA.

Njengere said at the end of the registration period, a total of 996,078 candidates registered for the KCSE examination.

On the other hand, a total of 1,298,089 candidates registered for the KPSEA while a total of 1,130,669 candidates have registered for KJSEA.

As such, Knec will be administering the national examination and assessments to a total of 3,424,836 candidates.

Each year Knec contract professionals to work as centre managers, supervisors, invigilators, security personnel and drivers.

However Knec says the KPSEA and KJSEA will not have security officers engaged during administration.

It says the officers will be engaged only where it is absolutely necessary, in order to ensure that these assessments are administered in a normal and conducive environment for the candidates.

In this regard, the security officers will only be engaged in the distribution of examination materials to examination centres and return of candidates answer sheets and scripts to the container in few areas that have security challenges.

However, during KCSE examination, there will be at least two security officers in every examination centre.

Knec has spelt strict deployment rules for teachers this year to curb exam cheating.

It directed that only secondary school teachers to work as KCSE supervisors.

The KCSE supervisors will be rotated weekly as Knec seek to address rampant exam malpractices.

Each KPSEA and KJSEA exam centre will have only one supervisor assisted by invigilators except those with more than 200 candidates.

The junior school teachers will supervise the 2025 KJSEA. They will be assisted by primary school teachers who will also work as KJSEA supervisors and invigilators.

Knec also ordered deployment of junior school teachers to work as KPSEA invigilators.

The teachers who were also trained as KJSEA examiners will on December take part in marking and scoring of KJSEA 2025.

However only primary school teachers will supervise the Grade 6 KPSEA.

Knec directed TSC Sub County Directors to only deploy teachers who are registered and employed by TSC.

The deployed teachers must not have served in the same school for the last three years.

Learners will from October sit for KPSEA, KJSEA, KPLEA, KILEA and KCSE exams and assessments.

Knec activated the CP2 portal on 26th September to allow deployment of teachers.

Teachers are required to create CP2 accounts, login and download the deployment letters which show duties and responsibilities.