Public Service Commission (PSC) announces changes in hiring of civil servants
PSC Partners with KNEC for realtime verification of academic certificates during hiring civil servants.
PSC Partners with KNEC for realtime verification of academic certificates during hiring civil servants.
In a bid to curb the proliferation of fake academic certificates, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has partnered with the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to digitally verify the academic credentials of civil servants before they are hired.
Speaking on NTV on Tuesday, October 28, PSC Commissioner Francis Meja revealed that the partnership will aid in curbing the prevalence of fake certificates, adding that the new digital verification system was in its pilot phase.
In the new system, the interfaces of the databases of the two State institutions are linked, with the PSC using one’s index number from their primary and secondary education to verify the credentials provided during application.
“We have signed an agreement with the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC). Before your appointment, we will verify your certificates,” he noted.
“And how will we do it? We want to interface our systems so that there is no manual intervention in the verification of certificates. The database is there, and KNEC has given us access to their database so that we just pick information as it is,” Meja added.
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Meja noted that if successful, the use of forged academic certificates will be a thing of the past, as it would filter out the ineligible applicants from the wide pool of Kenyans who apply for jobs in government.
The new system will replace the previous one, where the PSC would manually verify academic certificates after civil servants had already been recruited.
According to Meja, the digital verification system would be extended towards university degrees across the levels of Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD.
This would be done through a similar partnership with the Commission for University Education (CUE), which would act as a repository for all university academic certificates.
“Once we create that database and link it, we will deal with this problem of fake academic certificates once and for all,” he assured.
The digital verification system was launched by KNEC back in July, with the PSC set to be the first government institution to utilise it.
At the time of its launch, KNEC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) David Njeng’ere noted that the Ministry of Interior would follow in the system’s utilisation before its deployment in the private sector.
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