New education system to be tested in all counties next month
Pupils at Kosawo Primary school in Kisumu use tablets on March 1, 2017.A pilot programme for the proposed education curriculum will be launched this week . PHOTO | ONDARI OGEGA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The new system has three tiers: Early years, consisting of Pre-primary One to Grade Three; middle-school, comprising Grades Four to Nine; and senior school, running from Grade 10 to 12.
In January this year, the Basic Education Curriculum Framework was adopted at a national conference on curriculum attended by 659 stakeholders.
According to the plan drawn by KICD, the pilot targets 470 schools, 10 in each of the 47 counties: Five each from pre-primary and primary.
A pilot programme for the proposed education curriculum will be launched this week with training for headteachers of selected schools from all the 47 counties.
It will be carried out at pre-primary and lower primary levels, referred to as “early years” under the new curriculum, which comprises five levels — pre-primary one and two and grades one to three.
