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The Commission said it is mandated to ensure integrity is upheld during national exams.
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Over 3.5 million candidates will sit national examinations with KCPE candidates covering the most soaring number ever recorded in the country.
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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is set to hold a sensitisation forum with the Kenya National Examination Council on upholding integrity during the administration of exams.
The sensitisation forum is set to take place from Monday to Tuesday at the Knec headquarters in Nairobi.
The forum organised by Knec will be graced by 2023 Examination Monitors and Ministry of Education officials including Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu.
Permanent Secretaries from the Ministry of Education alongside the Council and Executive Management of Knec will also be in attendance.
"During the forum, to be held at the Knec Headquarters, EACC will facilitate sessions on ethics and integrity in examination administration," the commission said.
EACC said the forum is aimed at addressing any systemic weaknesses and loopholes conducive to integrity deficits in national examinations.
The Commission said it is mandated to ensure integrity is upheld during national exams.
This comes as Knec is preparing to administer the 2023 KCPE and KCSE exams.
Over 3.5 million candidates will sit national examinations with KCPE candidates covering the most soaring number ever recorded in the country.
Just under a million will sit KCSE exams this year while 1.4 million will sit KCPE exams. Those registered to sit the inaugural KAPSEA are 1.2 million.
KCSE exams will start on October 23 and end on November 24.
The rehearsals will happen on October 19.
The rehearsal date for KCPE and KPSEA is set for Friday, October 27.
Exams for both KCPE and KPSEA will begin on Monday, October 30, and end on Wednesday, November 1.
The 2023 KCPE examinations will mark the end of the 8-4-4 system in primary schools.
Following the announcement of the 2022 KCSE exams earlier this year, allegations of exam malpractice were rife.
The National Assembly Education Committee then moved to probe the allegations on January 27 this year
The committee found that exam malpractices in the 2022 KSCE included collusion to share answers, use of mobile phones in exam rooms, impersonation, smuggling of unauthorised written material, leakage, and plagiarism among other techniques.