Scant talks are exposing new curriculum to legitimacy crisis

Education Secretary George Magoha recently announced the formation of a task force to oversee the rollout of the new education system, the Competency Based Curriculum, and also announced that the task force would hold consultations in all the 47 counties, a process that was to commence in July.

At the opening of the national conference on education last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta said the task force had already visited all the counties and, in addition, had also held 11 sector-based consultations with stakeholders, facts that led him to conclude that the rollout of the new system was on course.