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Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC)

KUPPET Wants More Teachers Hired To Boast the CBC

Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has expressed worry that the government may not have invested enough effort in preparing for the Competency-Based Curriculum’s (CBC) debut at the secondary level. KUPPET has seen a glaring problem of teacher shortage and has recommended the government focus on recruiting more teachers […]

KNUT Cites Inflation in Appeal to KNEC to Increase Examiners’ Pay

Join Our Telegram Group Teachers who are examiners are contracted under the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) and are also paid by the same body. Collins Oyuu urged KNEC to increase the remunerations that are allocated to centre managers, invigilators supervisors and markers involved in the whole process of conducting and marking the national examinations. […]

Magoha’s Request to CBC Judges

Join Our Telegram Group The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has implored the three-judge bench that is set to hear a petition to halt the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). CS Magoha was speaking on Wednesday the 23rd of March in Nairobi when he said that parents and the government as well, […]

Thousands of High School Teachers to Undergo CBC Training

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is planning to train more than 60,000 high school teachers on the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) by April 2023. This is after the Commission trained 228,000 of their primary school counterparts. The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has also revealed that designing the syllabus for grades one to ten has […]

Mombasa: County Director for ECDE Wants Robotics Included In Syllabus

Mombasa County Director for Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE), Libraries Department and ICT, Mwangi Gichui has implored the Ministry of Education to incorporate robotics in the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC). Gichui said that after the successfully concluded robotics competition in Mombasa, robotics should be incorporated into the CBC. “The robotics program targets PP2 pupils. It should […]

KNEC Directs ECDE College Principals to Collect Their 2021 KNEC Results

The Kenya National Examinations Council has told Principals of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) colleges that the 2021 results are ready for pick up. The examiner has used both Short Message Text and electronic mail to pass this directive to ECDE college principals who are now going to visit the Mtihani House in Nairobi for […]

TTC Teacher Trainees to Get HELB Loan

For many years, Teacher Training College (TTC) students have never received loans from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) because of not being considered government-sponsored. According to section 56 of the Universities Act, the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) is mandated to coordinate how government-sponsored students to universities and colleges. This puts […]

Courses to dictate grading of Senior Secondary Schools in CBC

The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has revealed that the government is considering the idea of classifying senior secondary schools based on the courses that they will be offering under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). CS Magoha has revealed that some national schools might be picked to exclusively offer three main courses because they […]