Ruto’s education reforms taskforce hands in their report on CBC.
Ruto’s education reforms taskforce hands in their report on competence based curriculum among other proposals.
The taskforce recommends that the government must abolish National Schools or the ranking system of schools in Kenya, which; saw schools classified as national, extra-county, county, and sub-county institutions.
They recommended that all students should be given free will to choose their schools of choice, based on their career pathways.
Secondly, The taskforce pushed for abolishment of National Examinations. This will include scraping off of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).
They proposed that instead, students will pursue three specialisation areas namely; Arts and Sport Science, Social Sciences and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
They stated,“For the STEM pathway, students can pursue pure, applied, technical and engineering sciences and career and technology studies. 60 per cent of learners in a school should be enrolled in STEM and 25 per cent in social sciences. The rest in arts.”
Thirdly, The head of state’s Task force wants the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to be renamed Kenya National Assessment Council (KNAC) as the new curriculum is based on assessments.
Fourth point, The task force recommended reduction of subjects. They also proposed that Grade 7, Grade 8, and Grade 9 should be domiciled in the existing primary schools and that Grade 6 assessment should not be used for placement of learners.
The taskforce also proposed merging of preschool, primary schools and JSS under one principal.
On matters CBC, The task force proposed that all teachers in primary and secondary schools should be retrained for one year to ensure they know CBC changes and adhere to set guidelines.
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