PS Kipsang to oversee beginning of KCSE exams

The Star Kenya

Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang in the company of Nairobi's Regional Director of Education Margaret Lesuuda arrived at the Westlands sub-county containers to launch the start of the theory KCSE tests. https://bit.ly/3QqEQKD

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00:34 We should be allowing you to pick examinations for the next one week to go.

00:38 But you know we betray ourselves that now we need to even pick it twice.

00:45 And it's not because of our children.

00:49 It's because of ourselves.

00:51 So really we need to address this trust issue.

00:55 So that going forward, we can trust ourselves.

01:00 And we can trust the work of our hands.

01:04 And that our children should be left to be children.

01:10 Let's leave them to be children.

01:12 Let them give us their full potential.

01:15 Let's give them an opportunity to give us their full potential.

01:19 Let them give us their best.

01:22 And we should not define that best for them.

01:25 Let it be from themselves.

01:27 Because maybe part of the problem is that we have been defining for them what is best.

01:32 And out of that we've been taking them through situations that they should not be going through.

01:37 So as a teacher, as a parent, I think as parents also we should be able to trust our children.

01:47 But most importantly, we should be able to trust those people we haven't trusted our children to.

01:53 The teachers.

01:57 So that we don't go into mobilization situations where we get resources to try to do the wrong thing.

02:04 So once again my good colleagues, I think today I felt that when we ask you to be in the container twice,

02:16 it is a signal to ourselves.

02:24 And it is a direction that we should not be going.

02:27 Because I am sure as professionals we can do better.

02:32 Yeah, we can do better.

02:35 And that's what I would urge all of us.

02:37 Our PSR, this Westlands has 13 centres, 14 are private and 14 are public.

02:46 We have had very little challenges in Westlands, in the Kibsar and KCP.

02:53 But allow me, sir, just to mention a few close-cutting issues.

02:56 One of them is closing gates. Keep your gates open. That one we know.

03:02 The other observation we are making is when the remaining question papers are left unsealed,

03:11 please ensure they are sealed.

03:13 The other thing, sir, in this case on the DCC and our security people,

03:19 we have seen that the requests of the police officers really become very popular.

03:23 We have gone to centres where the police officer is sitting far from the exam.

03:28 And the other ones are on phone.

03:32 We are requesting that they are the ones who should stop us even from accessing centres with phones.

03:38 And they are the ones who are holding it.

03:40 So we are requesting that you observe that.

03:42 And then lastly, centre managers, I am appealing to you before the PSR.

03:47 Do not sit in your orchids as if you are planted there.

03:51 Do what we call umboa, management by walking around.

03:54 This is your exam.

03:56 If you sit there and you don't know what is happening in classes, surely,

03:59 if cheating happens, who will be the first one to go?

04:02 Senewewe, unga kaziako, tembea, look at the classroom,

04:07 just peep and see whether your learners are doing the right thing.

04:10 The supervisors and the regulators we are giving you are unknown to you.

04:15 So you don't know what plans they could be having, even with the candidates.

04:17 You don't know. So please, guard.

04:20 Then, sir, we have also told the private schools that any school that will cheat, we are going to close.

04:26 We closed two last year, 2021, two others.

04:31 We will close any other that will attempt.

04:33 If that is your business, take care of it properly.

04:36 Pro kani.

04:37 [END]

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