2024-2025 KNEC payment rates for Center Managers, Supervisors, and Invigilators; Call for Knec CP2 Application Following Portal Activation

Now that normalcy has returned in 100% of Kenyan schools-both primary and secondary following the calling off of the go-slow occasioned by TSC’s failure to honor its part of the bargain, the Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, has oiled its elbows to deliver credible KCSE and KPSEA 2024 national examinations.

In its quest for excellence in as far as the administration of this year’s national examinations is concerned, the Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, has announced thousands of slots that are up for grabs targeting both primary and secondary school teachers willing to serve as invigilators, supervisors and center managers in the year 2024.

Kindly note that the afore-mentioned slots attract a stipend besides giving currently employed TSC teachers an edge when it comes to promotions as follows:

KCSE supervisors earn Sh2,485 while invigilators take home Sh1,615. Security officers are paid Sh1,050 while drivers earn Sh1,040.28, 408 KCSE center managers are paid Sh2, 000 per day for 18 days, translating to sh36,000.

Supervisors earn Sh2,485 for the same number of days, translating to Sh44,750 each. 74,990 invigilators earn Sh1, 615 per day for 17 days, translating to Sh24,450 each. Secondary school principals take home a flat rate of Sh500 for 18 days, translating to Sh9, 000.

Interested and qualified teachers are also advised to tune their ears on the 2024 KNEC Advertisement for Examiners.

KNEC currently pays between Sh48 and Sh77 per script.

Those marking English papers are paid at a rate of between Sh57 and Sh77 per script, while those marking Kiswahili papers are paid between Sh57 and Sh69. The same rate applies for those marking mathematics papers. Teachers charge between Sh50 and Sh52 to mark Chemistry papers, same as Biology and Physics.

KNEC has to part with between Sh52 and Sh55 to have History papers marked, Geography papers are rated at between Sh52 and Sh54 per script. Business Studies and Agriculture are rated at Sh52. KUPPET, however, says Agriculture paper 3, which is marked at school level, is never paid for. About 30,000 teachers marked KCSE papers last year.

Delayed KNEC Payment for Invigilators, Supervisors, Examiners, and Center Managers 

The delayed payment is contrary to the demands of the parliamentary education and research committee last year that had summoned former CS Education to appear and answer questions about KNEC contracts and payments.

This comes as the teachers unions are sometimes forced to put pressure on the council to honor their obligation to pay the teachers saying they are breaching the contract they signed with the tutors.

Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) national chairman Omboko Milemba gave the council two weeks ultimatum to ensure the 50,000 tutors were paid their dues last year.

”We have given the examination council two weeks to settle the bills or face the teachers’ wrath. If the bills are not settled by the end of March, KUPPET will mobilize the examiners to occupy the KNEC office,” Milemba said.

The union leader scoffed at the government for subjecting teachers to work under unfavorable conditions and at the same time retain their money after completing their contract.

”Fair labor practices demand that workers who render their services should be paid commensurate with the work done and on time. The teachers performed their part of the agreement successfully, yet all they get in return is neglect,” he stated.

In December last year, markers of CRE paper II downed their tools in protest of poor working conditions and low pay.

”The work itself is characterized by poor conditions including long hours, poor accommodation in students’ dormitories, poor diets and above all, low pay,” Milemba stated.

Teachers have demanded that the examinations agency raise marking fees for each script to Sh100, according to new proposals by their union.

The teachers also want the venue for marking all KCSE examination papers and KCPE English composition as well as Kiswahili Insha be moved to university campuses or other high level government institutions.