Learning ongoing in a class. The new curriculum hangs in the balance after teachers shot down the proposal. [Photo/Spectator]
Day three of the ongoing Kenya Primary School Heads Teachers’ conference was characterized by sharp differences.
KEPSHA through their leadership threw out all policies suggestions that TSC and the Ministry of Education had put forward on Wednesday, including the implementation of a new curriculum.
“I have been listening to the pronouncements of the Cabinet Secretary of Education Fred Matiang’i I have been listening to the pronouncements by the TSC, and where I was alone I slept on them,” said one of the officials.
First, it was the proposal by TSC to have head teachers, principals and their deputies transferred from their counties that received its major blow.
What does the policy of HIV at workplace say, when you separate couples,” asked the official.
The giant union also faults TSC in the manner in which the government has moved with speed to make changes to be a head teacher or principal.
According to KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion, the dialogue is what will help forge a way forward.
“There must be consensus, there must be dialogue, without which we will organize and oppose what we have not been consulted on,” said session.
The much-awaited proposed new curriculum of 2-6-6-3 now hangs in the balance, with the teachers saying they know nothing about it.