Action will be taken against teachers and centre managers found to have aided KCPE malpractice, Education CS George Magoha has said.
Magoha said the Ministry of Interior is already working on measures to deal with the teachers.
He spoke during the release of the 2021 KCPE exams where more than 11,000 students scored above 400 marks.
Magoha said during marking, the council flagged cheating in seven examination centers that wrapped 320 candidates.
The CS delegated administrators of the exam centres to work with the Teachers Service Commission and submit details of the teachers.
“These candidates will be awarded a mark of zero in the affected subjects but will get marks in the other subjects,” he said.
On her part, TSC chief executive officer Nancy Macharia said the commission will also take action against the same teachers.
“The TSC will act firmly and expeditiously on those teachers who will be found guilty of aiding in examination irregularities,” Macharia said.
Magoha also said that 12 counties registered more female students compared to males.
“In 2020, twenty counties, including the 12 counties mentioned above, registered more female than male candidates,” he said.
The counties are Mombasa, Meru, Isiolo, Tharaka Nithi, Nairobi, Uasin Gishu, Busia, Bungoma, Kakamega, Vihiga, Kisumu and Siaya.
The number of candidates who were absent decreased from 12,424 (1.04 per cent ) in 2020 to 11,523 (0.94 per cent) in 2021 KCPE examination.
KNEC engaged the services of 5,567 examiners for the marking of English Composition and Kiswahili Insha answer scripts.
For the objective questions, KNEC undertook machine scoring of the candidate’s OMR answer sheets.
About 4,970 centre managers hosted 6,863 examination centers that had registered less than 30 candidates.
Some 1,214,031 candidates sat for the KCPE examination.
The exams were administered in 28,313 examination centers countrywide.
The candidates were examined in seven subjects, tested in nine papers.
The examination papers for the KCPE examination were administered in three days from Monday, March 7 to Wednesday, March 9.
(Edited by Bilha Makokha)
