Push implementation of new Curriculum to ten years, Kuppet says.
By Dickson Odhiambo
December 17, 2018.
Push implementation of
new Curriculum to ten years, Kuppet says.
THE Implementation of the new curriculum of education should
be pushed to ten years from now so as to allow emerging issues addressed first
before its full implementation in the country, the Kenya Union of Post Primary
Education Teachers has said.
Kisumu County Kuppet Executive Secretary Zablon Awange says
the new system of education cannot be implemented smoothly in the entire
country because it has a number of Challenges facing it.
Addressing the press in Kisumu today, Awange said Kenyans
are very much worried by the abrupt about-turn decision by the Cabinet
Secretary in charge of Education Ambassador Amina Mohamed who has said the new system
of education will now be implemented in the year 2020 thereby contradicting her
early decision of suspending the new curriculum.
He says as a union, they fully support the suspension of the
new system of education which should be done properly after the next ten years
when it can now be implemented fully upon engaging all the stakeholders whom
most of them have been left out of the program.
Awange says better the country loose the few resources which
has been invested as a result of the new curriculum than losing a whole generation
as a result of poor Planning and implementation of the new education system.
He says the Government should first set aside enough funds
and employ more teachers to take up the implementation of the new system,
adding that the current piloting which is being done is through the donor
funding which will come to an end at some point.
“Let the Government also first solve the confusion that is
there about the new curriculum where at some point it is being referred as
2-6-6-3 or 2-9-3-3.This should be very clear from the word go. The issue about
the confusion about the money which will be used in the implementation of the
new education system should also be solve,” Awange says.
He adds that the implementation of the program should not
entirely depend on the donor funds, adding that the government should get
organized and state how the funding will be done.
“When we say we are going to develop talent because it is a
competency based curriculum. How do we know that these children are not going
to change even in the 8-4-4 system of education they have been changing,” he
says.
He says the reforms in the education sector should continue
with the current system of education, adding reforms in examination has already
be seen and that is a proof that the more reforms can be done with the existing
current education system.
“It is very important for the publishers to lose the
investment that they have put in place for this new curriculum rather than
losing a whole generation and this must be avoided now,” he adds.
He says the input of every stakeholder must be taken into
the account before embarking on the fully implementation of the new curriculum,
adding that this should include even the consumers who are the parents.
Awange
further says a final decision should be reached by January
1 next year before the schools re-opens for the first term, adding that
infrastructure and employment of teachers should take place first before
the implementation of this program.
“There should be a thorough investigation, thorough research
before being put for implementation which should be pushed to ten years from
now,” Awange further says.
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