According to Professor Fatuma Chege, Principal Secretary of the State Department for Implementation of Curriculum Reforms, secondary schools will also have domicile of schools.
Pro. Chege said these are after confusion over where grades 7, 8 and 9 will be placed next year as well as its management.
The confusion arose after the Principal Secretary of Basic Education, Julius Jawan, said that junior secondary classes in both secondary and primary schools would be domiciled.
Jawan also said that the current classrooms used by grades 7 and 8 will be used to host grades 7, 8 and 9 next year.
“Due to the introduction of CBC, the classes used by the students of class seven and eight will remain vacant. But classes won’t go to waste because they are public resources. Instead, they will be used by the students of junior secondary schools,” said Jawan.
Although Prof. Chege clarified that if, for some reason, a junior secondary school class would be accommodated in the surplus classrooms in the primary school, which is housing only, they do not belong to the primary school, they are domiciled in the secondary sub-region.
He said that this section would have its own board and if the government wanted to set up a junior secondary school using the infrastructure available in the primary school, that would be the primary school.
“The junior secondary school will be domiciled in the secondary schools. There should be no confusion between domiciling, hosting or rendezvous.
If you are accommodated or hosted, you are a guest, but when you are domiciled, you are there legally,” said PS Fatuma Chege. Prof. Chege sought to clarify this. That the ongoing debate about placement of the leading batch of Grade VI candidates under the 2-6-3-3-3 curriculum in junior secondary schools insisted that there are primary schools that would host junior secondary.
The school, management and administration will be independent of the primary school. PS Othaya was speaking at St. Maria Goretti Ruruguti Secondary School in Nyeri County, where he commissioned the first full classroom built under the competency-based curriculum project. Junior Secondary School.
Already the Education Cabinet Secretary, George Magoha, announced new 10-month training for teachers, who will be handling the upcoming Grade 7. Speaking at Kapsabet Girls’ High School in Nandi County on Monday, February 14, Magoha said that the 10-month training would take place between the months of February and December.
A total of 60,000 teachers have been targeted in the training. With over 120,000 elementary school teachers already in grade 6 . have been trained to handle.
Last year the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) had announced that it would train 60,000 secondary school teachers to handle junior secondary in April 2022. The commission said it would hire more teachers to handle junior secondary from the Sh15 billion additional budget received for 2022. – 2023 fiscal year.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani had allocated an additional Sh14.9 billion to the TSC, whose budget has increased from Sh281.7 billion to Sh296.6 billion in the new fiscal year.
A report, which was submitted by the Parliamentary Budget Office to the National Assembly’s Education and Research Committee, shows that TSC has raised its Sh15 billion of Sh15 billion to deal with the exit of 13,000 secondary school teachers and 9,000 interns. planned to use the allocation. Expected increase in enrollment when Junior Secondary starts in January 2023.
Magoha said three national exams, for grade 6, the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) are ready for administration.
The government is persistent and if I am not there, whoever comes to take over will find everything ready and our children safe. As far as the welfare of our children is concerned, we are leaving everything in good condition,” he said.
Magoha also said that all CBC classes will be ready by the end of January 2023. In 2023, the competency-based curriculum (CBC) will expand to junior secondary. The Junior Secondary School will consist of grades 7, 8 and 9.
In 2023, under the new 2-6-3-3-3 CBC system, leading learners will transition to junior secondary school after appearing in grade six national exams.
However, CBC learners may suffer a major setback when public universities reveal they are unwilling to enroll them.
In an interview on NTV on Tuesday night, 15 February, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi, Prof James Kiama, said that the first batch of CBC learners would bear the brunt of the lack of preparation when he said that the introduction of the CBC was a good idea and a learners Affordable system for but preparing to admit students is a major challenge for universities in the country.
Kiama explained that by exemplifying the challenges posed by the 8-4-4 system, CBC learners would also face setbacks in their curriculum at the university level, unless the government worked with higher education institutions to prepare early.
It will be a bit cheaper for the students as the number of years has been reduced. Now we have to look at the curriculum which we are used to teaching for four years and for five years, we have to cut that. They attend university.
“They are coming in 2029, we have seven years to prepare but looking at our experience with 8-4-4, we might have a little problem. The university community should start thinking about this.”
His sentiments were supported by Medina Halako, who explained that the education sector was heavily affected by the pandemic and other factors.
