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Join Our Telegram Group The Ministry of Education has made changes to the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) to enable parents to initiate transfers for their children from one school to another. In addition, parents will now be able to monitor their children’s school attendance and view their performance among other benefits coming with […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Chief Executive Prof. Charles Ong’ondo has warned private school owners and teachers against assigning unreasonable tasks to students instead of using locally available materials. In addition, Prof Ong’ondo urged business people to be aware of circulars issued by the government especially those concerning books. […]
Join Our Telegram Group Parents whose children are in Grade 6 have been urged to not buy model test papers intended for the first end-of-primary-school assessment under the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) scheduled to be done this November. Some firms have already started selling model test papers for summative assessment which takes around forty per […]
The Principal Secretary in the State Department for Early Learning and Basic Education Dr Julius Jwan has revealed that school meal programmes play an important role in retaining learners in schools. Speaking at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) on the 29th of June 2022 during the validation of the draft of the Kenya […]
The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has modified Learning Areas for Special Needs learners with special needs at the Pre-Vocational Level under the Stage-Based Curriculum for the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The learners are set to move from the current Intermediate Level to the Pre-Vocational Level in January next year. The learners will now be […]
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has revealed the guidelines for the Grade Six national examinations in 2022. Yesterday the KNEC Chief Executive Officer David Njengere revealed that the final Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) for Grade Six will be presented using the multiple-choice format. Njengere said that the Grade 6 examinations follow the […]
The Competency-Based Curriculum for Junior Secondary is set to be implemented in secondary schools by January 2023. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Charles Ong’ondo, the CBC will admit more learners to secondary schools at a stage when the learners are adventurous and imaginative. Ong’ondo said that […]
The Ministry of Education has announced the completion of the review of English, Kiswahili and Indigenous Languages via a circular, based on recommendations from the Report on the Implementation of Languages in Grades 1, 2 & 3. Besides, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has also approved the change of name from Literacy Activities to Indigenous […]
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 […]
The Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC)’ 2-6-6-3 system designed by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has been gradually phasing out the outgoing 8-4-4 system. In this article, we provide all details on how the CBC is organized right from pre-primary up to senior secondary. We will also list all the core subjects offered in […]
The Ministry of Education and the World Bank are assessing what kind of impact the Global Partnership for Education funded project has had on numeracy education. The World Bank implemented the project which was worth USD 88.4 million and began in 2015. The purpose of the project was to improve teaching and learning of Mathematics […]
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is set to work with the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in a bit to add tax education to the syllabus of secondary school. During the launch of a tax club at Kyeni Girls, the KRA Northern Rift Region coordinator Nicholas Kinoti said that besides Kagumo High School (located in […]