Knut secretary general Wilson Sossion.[Photo/the-star.co.ke]
Knut has described the new curriculum set to be rolled out next week in nursery and primary schools as a tragedy to the education system.
According to Knut, the Education ministry did not carry out a comprehensive survey of international best practice.
The giant union said that no research was done to prove that a competency-based curriculum is more effective than the current learning-outcome-based framework.
In the analysis dubbed A critical examination of the competency based curriculum reforms, the union claims the testing of the curriculumwas hurried.
“The technical training courses should be removed from the curriculum, which should not be implemented before teachers’ concerns are addressed,” the document says.
It adds: “The government is the problem. It must work for the speedy raising of the standards in schools, colleges and universities and has to learn from China, Korea, Finland, Singapore, Japan and other countries that have used education to promote rapid social economic development.”
The union added that no study had been conducted to identify dialects of indigenous languages that should be taught.
“The glaring gaps call for a quick fix of the entire process and that is the reason why we have brought the matters to your attention in a rather detailed form,” Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion said in a December 19 letter to Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, which accompanied the report.