Students found with mobile phones during this year’s national examinations will be barred from sitting the tests, Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has said.
Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed on Monday said any form of exam cheating will not be entertained and that those found culpable will be punished.
“Parents whose children will be found with mobile phones in school will be held personally responsible for the actions. Their children will immediately be suspended from school and such candidates will not be allowed to sit the examinations,” she said.
The CS was speaking at the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology after holding an education stakeholders’ meeting.
The participants were drawn from the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec), Kenya National Parents Association and Kenya Private Schools Association.
They had met to discuss measures put in place to ensure credible national examinations.
