Is it too early to celebrate key changes in education?

In this regard, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i and his team are moving fast to discard an education system, where schools could more or less be compared to obsolete and rickety factories, churning out products that are not attractive in the consumer world.PHOTO: COURTESY

The Ministry of Education is in the process of ditching the current  8-4-4 system of education and replacing it with a new education structure based on radical continuous assessment.

The shift means the much-feared and equally criticised high-stakes national examinations, namely, the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), will be substituted mainly by school-based assessments focusing chiefly on finding out what individual students’ know, what they understand and what they can do.