Former Kakamega Senator Bonny Khalwale took to Twitter on Saturday to advice the government on the controversial Competence Based Curriculum (CBC).
The outspoken politician argued that the new curriculum could only garner universal acceptance if the teachers were thoroughly trained, gaps between rural and urban schools closed, and the number of teachers increase to address the shortage
"The new Competancy Based Curriculum can only attract universal stakeholder acceptance if Government 1. Intensified teacher in-service training 2. Rectified the glaring infrastructural deficits between rural en urban schools 3. Addressed staffing shortages with finality," the former Kakamega Senator's tweet read.
His tweet comes in the wake of an ongoing stand-off between the Ministry of Education and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut).
The curriculum has seen Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha and Knut Secretary General and ODM nominated Member of Parliament Wilson Sossion publicly lock horns.
CS Magoha maintains that the ministry will not budge from its stance that the CBC must be rolled out to its last detail.
Sossion has accused the ministry of shoving the CBC down the throats of teachers who he claims were never consulted.
The CBC seeks to fundamentally change the curriculum as Kenyans have known it over the years.