The implementation of the CBC has been determined by countless teething problems.
Some of these would have been dodged if those tasked with its application had listened to the overabundance of expert opinions in the public domain.
Others were unescapable and are normal in any prospectus implementation scheme. Put together, these contests demand urgent attention.
This is the situation in which we should put to duty the president’s promise to establish a task force to examine through the implementation of Competence Based Curriculum to make it sound and less onerous to sections of participants.
The unit should set out to expand the operation of the curriculum and not to toss the baby with the bathwater. Our country really desires for a curriculum that will brand our youth for learning and the creation of work.
This is what Competence Based Curriculum engenders to achieve. Indication of this is current across its products in the two prospectus levels in our school system.
We should not abandon it because of the challenges befuddling it currently. Let’s find a way to perfect them.
Curriculum operation is never a pace in the park. It requires tact, patience, sobriety, and high level of knowledge. At least for once, we have an administration that is ready to advance its ear to this.
Being an invention, policymakers should have weighed up engagement and communication with all the shareholders. This was and still is presently being done, albeit on an unacceptable scale.
They should have also been thriving to the fact that logically people were guaranteed to resist the change. This should have made them also coming up with enough measures to discourse the issue, to involve the main stakeholders adequately to cook them for the innovation.
Public involvement should be in-built in the whole course of the application process.
Let the 8-4-4 be retained CBC is costly to both the parents and the govt