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KICD proposes urgent radical reforms to 8-4-4 system

Gandini Primary School class eight pupils pray before taking their 2015 KCPE exams. Stakeholders are meeting to decide whether to review the 8-4-4 system. [Photo: File/Standard]

Key stakeholders in the education sector meet Monday at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in what could mark the beginning of the end for the 8-4-4 system.

Monday’s meeting could also sound the death knell for Standard Eight and Form Four national examinations, should the stakeholders propose that they be scrapped.

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