From next year, junior secondary schools will have their own school heads, deputy and senior teachers.
According to Professor Fatuma Chege, Principal Secretary of the State Department for Implementation of Curriculum Reforms, secondary schools will also have domicile of schools.
Supporter. Chege said this after confusion over where grades 7, 8 and 9 will be placed next year as well as its management.
Julius Jawan, principal secretary of basic education, said the confusion arose after junior secondary classes in both secondary and primary schools were domiciled.
Juan 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 the jawan.
Although Prof. Chege clarified that if, for some reason, a junior secondary school classroom would be accommodated in surplus classes in a primary school, which is housing only, then they do not belong to the primary school, they are domiciled in the secondary sub-region.
He said that this block 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, then that primary school would have a junior secondary school.
Secondary schools will have domicile of Junior Secondary School. There should be no confusion between domicile, hosting or rendezvous. If you are accommodated or hosted, you are a guest, but when you are domiciled, you are living there legally,” said PS Fatuma Chege.
Supporter. Chege sought to clarify that the ongoing debate about the placement of the leading batch of grade six candidates under the 2-6-3-3-3 curriculum in junior secondary schools insisted that there are several primary schools, such as In the matters of junior secondary the school, which would host the management and administration, would be independent of the primary school.
PS Othaya was speaking at St. Maria Goretti Ruruguti Secondary School in Nyeri County, where he established the first full classroom built under the Competence Based Curriculum Project.
Already the Education Cabinet Secretary, George Magoha, announced new 10-month training for teachers, who will be handling the upcoming Grade 7.
Speaking at the Kapsabet Girls’ High School in Nandi County on Sunday, February 14, Magoha said that 10 months of training would take place in the months of February and December.
A total of 60,000 teachers have been targeted in the training. With over 120,000 primary school teachers already trained to handle Grade 6.
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 the 2022 – 2023 financial 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 the TSC has committed Sh15 billion of its Sh15 billion to deal with the exit of 13,000 secondary school teachers and 9,000 interns. Have gathered. 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.
He said, ‘The government is firm and if I am not there, whoever comes to power will find everything ready and our children will be safe.
As far as the welfare of our children is concerned, we are leaving everything in good condition,” he said.
CS Magoha also said that all CBC classes will be ready by the end of January 2023.
Merit Based Courses (CBC) will be extended to Junior Secondary in 2023. The Junior Secondary School will consist of grades 7, 8 and 9.
In 2023, under the new 2-6-3-3-3 CBC system, lead learners will move to junior secondary school after appearing in the Class VI national exam.
However, CBC learners may suffer a major setback when public universities revealed they were unwilling to enroll them.
In an interview on NTV on Tuesday night, 16 February, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi, Prof James Kiyama, said that the first group of CBC learners would bear the brunt of the lack of preparation when they joined the university.
He said that the introduction of CBC is a good idea and affordable system for the learners but the preparation to accept the students is a big challenge for the universities of the country.
Kiama pointed out that CBC learners will also face failures in their curriculum at the university level, citing the challenges posed by the 8-4-4 system, unless the government works with higher education institutions to prepare quickly.
“It will be a little 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 cut down on that to five years.
“They’re 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 that.”
His sentiments were supported by Medina Halako, who pointed out that the education sector has been greatly affected by the pandemic and other factors.
