The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) director, Julius Jwan in his opening remarks highlighted the importance of undertaking curriculum reforms in the country.
In a meeting held on August, 2 at the institution, Jwan said that they had partnered with various institutions to ensure that curriculum reforms were successful.
He further noted that those organisations had supported KICD financially so that the reforms could be realised.
In the meeting, it was pointed out that a lot of work and thoughts had gone into curriculum reforms in the form of intellectual input.
The engagement of various education stakeholders at different levels including Deputy President William Ruto, the Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’í, and the university vice chancellors among others had been included in the reform process.
The curriculum reforms were said to be vital components in the realisation of vision 2030 which was aimed at catapulting Kenya into a middle-level income industrialised country that all citizens envision. To realise this goal, attendees were urged to work towards fulfilling the 17 aspects of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
It was noted that key among the goals to be reduced significantly was poverty, illiteracy, and hunger. Enhancement of digitisation in the education system was also discussed.
The meeting that lasted four hours had great discussions aimed at transforming the education system in the country.