Publishers reap big from new curriculum's content roll-out

Schoolboy selects books from a textbook street vendor along Kakamega Road as he heads to school on September 02, 2019 when schools in the country opened for third term. (Denish Ochieng, Standard)

Book publishers are making a killing from the roll-out of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), having so far distributed 28 million books since the start of its implementation nine months ago.

This is despite the fact that the Government had prior to the programme’s roll-out promised that students would have fewer books with practicals being key determinants of the CBC.