CBC replaced the 8-4-4 system that had been in existence for years.
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In all the 47 counties, Kenyans now have the opportunity to give their own opinions on what needs to be done to improve the CBC.
The Presidential Working Party on Education Reform on Friday, October 28 published a notice on Page 13 of The Standard Newspaper listing the sites across all the 47 counties where Kenyans can give in to their views.
The views assembly will start on Tuesday, November 1 and end on Friday, November 11, 2022.
The exercise will be steered between 8am and 4pm on the particular days.
The President appointed 42 members and 7 secretaries to the Education reforms unit to review CBC progress.
This was in completion of his pledge to have the suitability of the CBC evaluated.
Under the CBC programme, students spend 2 years in pre-primary, 6 years in primary, 3 years in junior secondary, 3 years in senior secondary and 3 years in university.
CBC focuses on preparing a learner with artistic, scientific skills and technical that enables him or her to be hands-on.
Prof. Raphael Munavu, a scientist, was selected as the chairperson of the 42-member unit set up by President Ruto.
Personal views on CBC.
Below is the full membership composition:
The unit has 7 secretaries, including the CEO of the Kenya National Examinations Council Dr. David Njegere.
The other six secretaries are Patita Tingoi, Eunice Gachoka, Prof. Jackson Too, Dr. Reuben, Dr. Elyas Addi, Richard Miano and Nthamburi Mugwuku.
Personal views on CBC.
The team was given a 6 months mandate by President Ruto in a Gazette Notice dated September 30, 2022.
The unit is expected to undertake cumulative evaluation of the CBC assess and recommend a suitable structure to implement the CBC.
The Prof. Munavu-led unit is also expected to evaluate the examination framework and the value assurance and standards framework.
CBC will be of great significance for the future generation. As a teacher by profession, my candid opinion is that the government should implement CBC and get rid of the rote memory of 8-4-4. Thanks.
CBC is good if the schools are equipped with necessary resources. A case like grade 3 learners undertaking computer studies with no computers in school.
The curriculum in cbc should be integrated with 844 system to came up with good reliable system. Which is adorable to current economic state
This CBC needed piloting before implementation.now its confusing and methods used in teaching are 8-4-4,there’s no clear ways to handle this CBC. It’s costly to both parents and teachers- more of the teaching -learning materials are not readily available in our environment for example topics on computers and such even the teachers are not well trained to handle this.all of us ,the stakeholders need to go back to the drawing board and correct the mess before the whole education sector is damaged.
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[11/2, 11:01] Nancy Kr: Mwambie nimesema CBC should be there but optional. Not all parents can afford it.
My neighbor’s child was told to bring the rabbit to school tulitafuta rabbit, at the end we got a small one at 600ksh.
CBC is too expensive and involving kuweka wazazi na homework na sisi tulimaliza shule kitambo tunatafuta school fees.
[11/2, 11:05] +254 726 578316: I think the seven subjects with art and craft included was the best compared to this CBC shenanigans
[11/2, 11:07] +254 728 851469: Due to defferent geogoraphical areas and incomes,i may say it be scrapped
[11/2, 11:10] Nancy Kr: True,music and home science. Are enough. To me CBC is a no for me.
Mtoto anatoka shule and the first step ninkwa cyber kuprint , what if you don’t have money for printing all those.
Mtoto anaambiwa aende ajifunze kuimba the fork song na Iko Kwa You tube, the next day akuje kama anaiimba vizuri. What if you don’t have the wifi or the bundles, what of a smart phone.
[11/2, 11:15] +254 727 157327: Cbc iko sawa.. they only need to be realistic. Like say waambie watoto walipie rabbit moja for the lesson. For instance if watoto ni 50 per class then each child alipe kidogo kidogo.
opinion from Lang’ata People
“First of all, this is not a CBC. The word competency has no meaning at all. The other day I took my kid to grade 3 in public school. The kid has all along been in private. When I was asked to present a birth certificate, I was shocked to be told that my child cannot be enrolled in that grade. The reason being he is too young for that class even though he has the competence required for that grade. My question therefore would be, is it competency-based or age-based?” ~ Derrick
In other words CBC should be scraped off
CBC is too costly for parents. Kindly do CBC under the former 8.4.4 that had home science, art and craft and agriculture
RESOURCES ,,,,MUST BE AVAILED FOR CBC TO BE IMPLIMENTED
CBC is a very good curriculum if the right procedures are followed the problem we have now as a country is that we are entering in a curriculum without fully getting prepared. I can equate this to pushing a person with a suite in water. This person has not prepared well. So as a country we need to prepare enough well in terms of the resources,skills and also in terms of infrastructure for us to implement this curriculum. I can say that we should emulate this curriculum but let it be a process.
CBC to continue.knec to stop uploading assessments which has caused learners to pay up to kshs 250 for one, teachers to practically be trained on portfolio making, record files be reduced to only three, giving of marks be correctly shown and with % for Tpad need it,CBC text books be 1:1 not as now Grade 1_5 where it is 1:3 and 1:2 in other subjects, projects be uploaded earlier and cheap ones.