A University don has called for the re-engineering of Early Childhood Development (ECD) education as one way of improving the country’s education standards.
The principal of Mt. Kenya University, Kisii campus, Prof Constantine Nyamboga cites higher professional training and deployment as part of the strategies to strengthen the ECD education.
Speaking during the graduation ceremony at Blessed Virgin, Tabaka girls Boarding ECD centre in Kisii County, Nyamboga termed the education level a crucial foundation.
He observed kids who underwent the ECD system, became brighter, developed good communications skills and were innovative from the onset for the good of the society.
The don challenged the National government to harmonize TSC and county governments on the implementation of the ECD policies, curriculum delivery, training, recruitment and staffing.
According to him, the TSC should give policy directions to the counties on the ECD while the later provide funds for scholarships among others.
“It is high time, Kenya embraced the system used in some countries like Finland and Sweden where holders of Masters and Doctorate degrees teach ECD kids for quality education,” remarked Nyamboga,
Nyamboga commended the Roman Catholic Church and nuns’ partnership with the two levels of government in moulding the ECD children at the centre.
Christopher Osinde, the church’s Education Secretary warned parents against abdicating upbringing responsibilities on their children’s education to teachers.
Osinde said the parents risked bringing up half-baked children who could be useless in the society.
The institution’s head Reverend Mother Maria Giovanna, disclosed that the church had started to emphasize on the boy-child-education as part of their responsibility to develop them holistically.