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.
She said that therefore the 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, then that primary school would have a junior secondary 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 a competency-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 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 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 2022. – 2023 fiscal year.
