18th January, 2019
The last Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examination will be written in 2027 as the new education curriculum takes root in schools. The Ministry of Education, however, urgently requires sh3.5 billion to complete the roll out of the new 2?6?6?3 curriculum that began this month and begin phasing out the current 8?4?4 system. These details emerged as education cabinet secretary Amina Mohamed was hard?pressed to explain the back and forth decisions her ministry made last year on implementation of the new curriculum. Members of parliament sought to know what had informed the pronouncement by Amina that the national roll out of the competency based curriculum would be postponed, only to backtrack on the decision later