Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has said that the national curriculum conference to endorse the new curriculum will now be held on January 6, 2017.
The conference was to take place tomorrow, December 8. This is the second time that the exercise has been pushed forward.
Reports indicate that the meeting has been pushed forward to enable the Ministry of Education to brief President Uhuru Kenyatta on the new curriculum.
The meeting is expected to endorse introduction of 2-6-3-3-3 system and scrapping of the 8-4-4 system.
Stakeholders in the education sector say the new system will ensure learners acquire skills to meet the human resource aspirations of Vision 2030 blue print.
Dr Matiang’i while releasing this year’s KCPE examination results said that most countries are turning to adoption of continuous assessments over summative evaluation (Kenya’s 8-4-4 education system).
“We have proposed, in the planned changes to the education curriculum, to gradually invest in the change that focuses on continuous evaluation,” he said.
The 8-4-4 system has attracted loads of criticism for being too exam oriented and unnecessarily expansive.