Opinion: Education reforms are welcome

A council meeting to discuss education reforms started yesterday at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development.

Over time, our education system has been vilified for putting emphasis on examinations at the expense of other aspects of holistic training. As a consequence, the country has ended up with poorly prepared graduates who make employers despair.

This is partly what informed the need for reforms. Clearly, there must be a shift from an exam-oriented system to one that identifies talent and nurtures it.

The education system, as promised by the principal secretary in the Ministry of Education, Belio Kipsang, must be competency-based, flexible, and aligned to the job market, whose dynamics keep changing in line with technological advances.

To achieve this, those imparting knowledge to the youth must themselves be competent in their fields. The capacity of teachers must, therefore, be enhanced if the pilot study likely to begin within the next two months is to hold promise for the future of our education.

This would also be in keeping with one of the Sustainable Development Goals of ensuring an inclusive and quality education for all and the promotion of life-long learning.

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