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Curriculum: New wine, old wineskins

Education CS Fred Matiang'i during National Conference for Curriculum Reforms. (Photo: Boniface Okendo/Standard)

Kenya has approved a new system of education to replace the 8-4-4. This has generated healthy debate.

Representatives of teachers have wisely advised against producing a very good document which may be tricky to implement. On the other hand CS Matiang'i has encouraged critiques to focus on “how you should be involved rather than how you have not been involved”.

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