Teacher trainees will from next year be admitted for diploma programmes only, as the P1 certificate is being phased out.
Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang said the diploma graduates will be leaving college ready to teach the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). Dr Kipsang said the changes in training are meant to produce teachers who are better equipped to deliver on the new curriculum.
Last group
“The P1 teacher trainees admitted this year will be the last. We will be phasing out a system that has not only produced teachers for the country but for neighbouring countries as well,” he said.
Dr Kipsang spoke when he addressed experts designing the remaining stages of the CBC at the Kenya School of Government in Embu. He said 27 million textbooks have already supplied to public primary schools in line with the implementation of the new curriculum.
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21st-century skills
The PS said they were banking on the 91,000 teachers who were trained during the April holidays for the successful rollout of CBC.
The new education curriculum phases out the 8-4-4 system that has been in use since 1985.
It is intended to produce people with desired 21st-century skills.
