TSC ISSUES FRESH RULES FOR 2025 NATIONAL EXAMS SUPERVISION

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has rolled out strict new guidelines for teachers overseeing this year’s national examinations – KCSE, KJSEA and KPSEA – in a bid to tighten integrity and curb malpractice.
Under the circular, all centre managers, supervisors and invigilators must be nominated, vetted and registered on the CP2 system by 26 September 2025. Only TSC-registered and qualified teachers will be eligible.
To avoid conflicts of interest, no supervisor or invigilator will be posted to a school where they have worked in the past three years. Anyone with personal ties to an examination centre must declare their interest and will be redeployed.
The commission has also set minimum qualifications: KCSE supervisors must be serving secondary school teachers with at least a diploma and three years’ experience, while KPSEA and KJSEA supervisors and invigilators must have similar teaching experience.
The rules tighten staffing ratios to one supervisor for every 200 candidates and one invigilator per 20 candidates, with a stricter one-to-10 ratio in assessments such as the Kenya Primary Literacy and Numeracy (KPLEA) and the Kenya Intermediate Level Education Assessment (KILEA).
Centre managers will be responsible for verifying staff details and marking daily online attendance from rehearsal day. Attendance registers must be downloaded, signed, stamped and submitted to the Kenya National Examinations Council after the exams.
In KCSE, supervisors will rotate weekly and hand over to successors in writing, while centres with visually impaired candidates must have at least one invigilator trained in Braille.
TSC says the new rules aim to safeguard the credibility of the 2025 examinations and maintain public confidence in Kenya’s testing system.