KCSE 2024 Results- Fear grips 198 Schools over cheating cases

Fear has gripped several schools over cheating cases at the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, exams.

Few days before KCSE exam results is released, TSC KENYA has either demoted, interdicted or transferred notorious principals whose schools were involved in exams cheating last year.

After news of these disciplinary measures leaked, the anxiety that has gripped parents and teachers at the affected schools is enormous.

Kisumu girls’ Principal Evaline Odhiambo Kaimosi Girls has been demoted and transferred to Dudi Girls in Homabay. This is seen as a demotion since Kisumu Girls is a national school while the latter is an extra County school.

There are a couple of other schools on Knec’s radar over exam irregularities.

Nyamninia Secondary School in Gem- Yala Sub county of Siaya County had reported cheating in Mathematics Paper 2. This is after several candidates at the school were caught with photocopied answers of the Mathematics Paper 2 exam.

A Supervisor at the Centre was equally caught with a section of the photocopied answers. A total of thirteen Knec Contracted Professionals (Supervisor and Invigilators) were apprehended and arraigned in court.

In Nandi County, three schools were involved in cheating at the KCSE 2024 exams. The affected schools are: Kamimei Secondary School in Nandi South, Koitalel Samoei Boys school in Nandi East and Lelwark Boys school in Nandi East. The schools were put on radar after they were suspected to have interacted with national exams materials in what was reported as premature exposure.

Other schools that may have been implicated for exam malpractice include:

1. Ulanda Girl’s (Nyanza)
2. St. Mary’s School Yala (Nyanza)
3. Ringa Boy’s (Nyanza)
4. Ambira High School (Nyanza)
5. St. Peters Mumias (Western)
6. Butere Girl’s (Western)
7. Nyamninia Mixed (Nyanza)
8. Sironga Girl’s High School (Nyanza)
9. Sameta Boy’s High School (Kisii)
10. Nyamagwa Boys High School (Nyanza)
11. Nyalenda Mixed (Nyanza)
12. Sino School (Nyanza)
13. St. Monica-Kitale (Rift Valley)
14. Gendia High School (Nyanza)
15. Bloggs
16. Teremi Boys
17. Nyambaria boys (Nyanza)
18.Friends School Poroko (Rift Valley)
19.Riokindo Boys (Nyanza)
20. Kebabe Mixed (Nyanza)
21. Ololunga boys (Rift Valley).
22. Sigoti girls (Nyanza).

The Ministry of Education had reported that 621 examination malpractices had been revorded at the conclusion of the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination.

Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba made the announcement saying that the cases currently under investigation were reported across 198 examination centres out of the 10,754 centres countrywide.

CS Ogamba revealed that the cases included candidates or supervisors being caught with unauthorised materials, such as mobile phones and written materials, collisions, and impersonation.

“During the administration of the 2024 KCSE examination, 621 candidates out of 965,501, representing 0.064%, were reported to have been found engaging in examination malpractices, mainly being found with unauthorized written materials, mobile phones, collusion, sharing images of their question papers on social media, and impersonation,” he said.

“These cases were reported from 198 out of the 10,754 examination centres, representing 1.841% of the examination centres. All above cases are under active investigation, and stern action will be taken on individuals found culpable of exam malpractice.” Ogamba reported.