Education CS Julius Migos commits to curbing exam malpractices
By Joel Masibo, November 10, 2025Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos has committed to curbing exam malpractices as candidates across the country sit for their end-of-year Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) papers.
Speaking after witnessing the opening of the KNEC secure container at the Starehe Deputy County Commissioner’s offices in Nairobi County on Monday, November 10, 2025, CS Migos Ogamba noted that the Ministry and other related organs will work jointly to deliver a credible exercise at the end of it.
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The CS, who also visited Starehe Boys Centre as part of the ongoing nationwide multi-agency monitoring exercise, which seeks to ensure the smooth, transparent, and credible administration of the national examinations, added that fairness will be upheld for all candidates undertaking the vital exercise.
Sealing cheating loopholes
”Our collective commitment remains to safeguard the integrity of the examination process and uphold fairness for all candidates across the country,” Julius Migos took to X.
Meanwhile, ahead of the 2026 education calendar year, Julius Migos has clarified that school fees across all learning levels remain unchanged, urging parents to disregard reports suggesting otherwise.
In a statement released to the press on Friday, November 7, 2025, Ogamba dismissed reports that the government had made any changes to the existing fee structure under the new education system.
Hiked school fees reports
The Cabinet Secretary maintained that the current rates remain in force as stipulated in the Kenya Gazette notice of 2015, emphasising that no official directive or policy review has been issued to warrant any alteration. Ogamba urged institutions and the public not to pay atttention to misleading reports, urging them to rely only on verified government communication regarding education fees.
“The reports indicating that the fee structure has changed, let me take this opportunity to inform the country that the fee structure in this new education system has not changed,” Ogamba said.
He explained that the ministry’s recent guidelines had been misinterpreted, stressing that they only referred to the 2015 Gazette, which already defines the payable fees in all categories of schools. “The fee structure remains as stipulated in the Kenyan Gazette of 2015. Remember the guidelines that we released referred to the Kenyan Gazette of 2015, which stipulates the fees that are payable to all categories of our schools, so the fees have not changed,” he said.