Copy-and-paste CBC not suited for Kenya

It is not too late to scrap the Ministry of Education’s introduction of the so-called Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). It is a poorly-designed policy initiative which so far has been horrendously bungled at every stage of implementation. We definitely need to reform our education system, but this is not the best way to do it. Teachers do not like the change. Parents are unaware of the real contents of the change, and fear that it will hurt their already stretched budgets. And education researchers oppose it on pedagogical grounds – it is unclear if this is the best way to teach pupils in the Kenya we have.

Education is not just about producing plumbers. It is about producing thinking citizens and human beings who can participate as full members of society and realise their potential – whatever that may be.