TSC, KNEC Start Deployment Of Teachers For 2026 KCSE, KJSEA

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has swung into action, beginning the process of picking out teachers who will run this year’s national examinations and assessments.

Curriculum Support Officers are already on the ground, meeting with Heads of Institutions to compile lists of teachers who could serve as Centre Managers, Supervisors or Invigilators once the exam season kicks off.

Once gathered, this information gets fed into KNEC’s CP2 online deployment system, the digital platform the exams council uses to match personnel to examination centres.

A circular on the matter instructs Sub-County Directors of Education to identify suitable candidates and have their details keyed into the system before September runs out.

The timing isn’t accidental. National exams are just around the corner, with the whole cycle set to begin in October.

Here’s how the calendar breaks down: KCSE candidates will sit their papers between October 19 and November 20. KPSEA written exams follow shortly after, running October 26 to 28. KJSEA and KILEA share a similar window, from October 26 through 30, while KPLEA wraps up a day earlier, ending October 29 after starting on the 26th.

KNEC has been clear on one point: deployment is reserved strictly for teachers who are either employed by TSC or registered with the commission, and who meet the required qualifications.

There’s also a built-in safeguard: the CP2 system automatically blocks Supervisors and Invigilators from being posted to any school where they’ve worked in the last three years. It’s a move designed to keep familiarity and potential bias out of the equation.

Conflict of interest is another area getting close attention. Teachers heading to exam centres must disclose any personal stake in the outcome, including whether a relative happens to be sitting the exam there. Anyone who flags such a conflict gets moved to a different centre entirely.

All this deployment planning is unfolding alongside a broader push by the Ministry of Education to keep distractions away from candidates during this critical stretch.

In a notice issued on September 3, Principal Secretary for Basic Education John Ololtuaa laid down new rules, ordering schools to suspend prayer sessions that bring in parents, outsiders, or other external visitors while candidates are sitting their papers.

“Annual General Meetings (AGMs) shall be scheduled and conducted only during the First or Second Term of the school calendar year,” Ololtuaa stated.

The PS also pushed prize-giving ceremonies, thanksgiving events and candidate prayer days to Term Two instead, and, in a move likely to raise a few eyebrows among staff cancelled annual leave for officers throughout the national assessment and examination period.

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