KNEC Moves to Resolve CP2 Portal Issues Affecting Missing KPSEA and KJSEA Invigilators
A significant number of teachers who reported for Friday’s rehearsal could not be found on the system, and so had no appointment letters or badges. The Council wants the gaps closed before assessments begin.
NAIROBI, Saturday, October 24, 2026. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has directed Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) and Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) invigilators who are missing from the CP2 portal to follow up with their Sub-County Directors of Education (SCDE) offices.
Their names must appear on the system by Monday morning, when the national assessments begin.
The directive follows the rehearsal on Friday, October 23, 2026. A significant number of teachers turned up at their assessment centres, only to be found missing from the portal.
Because they were not on the system, they could not access their appointment letters, which are available only after deployment. They arrived at their centres with no letters and no identification badges.
What Went Wrong on Rehearsal Day
Rehearsal day exists to expose problems before the real assessment, and on Friday it did. Teachers reported as instructed, but supervisors and centre managers could not find their names on the CP2 portal. The problem began with their deployment on the system and went on to affect everything that depends on it.
The appointment letter is not a document teachers receive separately. It is generated through the portal once an officer has been deployed.
A teacher who is not deployed cannot download or print a letter, and so cannot present one at the centre. The affected teachers were not careless. They simply had nothing to carry.
The portal also hosts the online attendance register, which supervisors and centre managers use to mark officers present. An officer who does not appear on the system cannot be marked, which left the affected teachers in an awkward position.
KNEC has not blamed the teachers. Its instruction is practical: anyone not found on the portal should go back to the SCD office and have the omission corrected, so that no centre starts Monday with unverified officers.
Why Appearing on the Portal Matters
The CP2 system is central to how KNEC manages field personnel in the 2026 assessments. Under the guidelines, all identified personnel must be deployed in the CP2 system, and nomination guidelines have been issued to the officers responsible.
Deployment is what unlocks everything else. Once a teacher appears on the portal, the appointment letter becomes available, the officer can be marked on the register, and the centre can account for them in the day’s paperwork.
Also payment of contracted professionals relies heavily on the details in the CP2 platform. Without deployment, none of this can happen.
The online register must be filled daily and printed. It is then signed by all officers and stamped by both the Centre Manager and the SCDE.
A teacher absent from the portal cannot be fully accounted for in the records that follow each day of assessment.
What Teachers Should Do Now
Affected invigilators should act immediately and not wait for Monday morning:
- Contact your CSO as early as possible and confirm whether your name was submitted for deployment.
- Ask that you be deployed or that your details be corrected on the CP2 portal.
- Log in to your CP2 portal to confirm that you now appear on the system.
- Download and print your appointment letter once it becomes available. It only appears after deployment.
- Get your identification badge and bring your ID, so that you arrive on Monday fully documented.
Monday morning is the deadline KNEC has set, and the first sessions begin that day.
The Documents Every Officer Must Carry
KNEC’s guidelines are firm. All Centre Managers, Supervisors and Invigilators must print and carry their appointment letters daily, carry their Identity Cards, and wear their identification badges.
This is why the portal problem is so pressing. For the affected teachers, meeting the requirement depends on being deployed first.
Every officer must also sign a Declaration of Interest form. The forms are returned together with the Centre Managers’ reports and form part of the integrity safeguards around the national assessments.
The guidelines also cover replacements. Any new officer appointed to replace someone who attended the earlier briefing must be briefed on their role before taking up the assignment.
This matters now, because correcting the portal could lead to last-minute substitutions. KNEC wants such officers prepared, not simply dropped into a centre.
Centres With Both KPSEA and KJSEA
Some institutions will host both assessments. Where a centre has both, one Supervisor will be deployed to oversee both, but each assessment will have its own assessment rooms and its own invigilators.
Teachers should therefore confirm which assessment they have been assigned to. A KPSEA invigilator should not expect to serve in a KJSEA room, and the portal record should reflect the correct assignment.
Checking this with the SCD office while fixing the deployment issue could save confusion on Monday.
The Calendar Ahead
After Friday’s rehearsal, KPSEA will be administered from Monday, October 26, to Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
KJSEA will run from Monday, October 26, to Friday, October 30, 2026. KILEA and KPLEA also start on Monday, October 26, and run through Thursday, October 29.
With all of these starting together on Monday, there is little room to resolve portal problems once the day begins. Officers who wait until Monday morning may find SCD offices overwhelmed, so early action is the safest course.
El Niño Preparedness Adds to the Urgency
The assessments are also taking place against the backdrop of weather warnings. Following several government advisories on the impending El Niño, KNEC says it has been putting strategies in place to reduce the adverse effects on the 2026 national assessments and examinations.
The Council has been engaging SCDEs for information on identified risks and proposed mitigations.
Regional, County and Sub-County Directors of Education have been asked to share information from County Security Meetings that can guide planning for predictable emergencies.
SCDEs have been encouraged in particular to advise on mitigation at the sub-county level, including relocating candidates to safer areas where necessary.
The priority in any emergency, KNEC says, is the safety of field officers, candidates, and assessment and examination materials.
This is another reason accurate personnel records matter. In an emergency, KNEC and SCDEs need to know exactly who is deployed where, and an officer missing from the system is one whose location and status may not be readily known.
Day-to-day occurrences and emergencies should be reported to the KNEC Call Centre immediately, so the Council can respond in real time.
Security officers for KJSEA and KPSEA will be deployed only in schools located in areas declared insecure.
A Test Before the Test
Rehearsal day did what it was meant to do. It exposed a weakness in the deployment records while there was still time to fix it.
The work now falls to the SCD offices, which must process corrections quickly, and to the affected teachers, who must follow up without delay.
Teachers who were not found on the portal on Friday should treat the matter as urgent. A visit or call to the CSO office today could be the difference between a smooth Monday and a stressful one.
