Best Options for Education Science Subject Combination

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The best Bachelor of Education Science subject combinations in Kenyan universities are sometimes a challenge for students who are interested in secondary school teaching positions.

In this article, we discuss the most marketable subject combinations in Kenya based on Bachelor of Education Science subject combinations.

Marketability of a subject combination depends on the demand for that combination now.

Some subject combinations have suffered a mass supply in the last few years leading to a glut. This forces teachers to wait for a very long time before they can be recruited by the Teachers Service Commission.

The subject combinations that have suffered a huge supply of teachers leading to long waiting times before being recruited are:

CRE
History and humanities in General.

Science subjects, Mathematics and technical subjects such as drawing have a huge shortfall of teachers and secondary school teachers are barely filling these vacancies. Other subjects that TSC is struggling to fill up vacancies include home science, art and craft, design, and foreign languages.

Therefore means that you will have a high probability of being recruited by TSC before long if take science, Maths or technical subject combination courses plus subjects like French, German and many more.

This means that the best teaching subject combinations include science, math, and technical units.

The available Bachelor of Education Science subject Combinations that are offered in schools of education at universities like Kisii University, MKU, KU, Maseno etc. are as shown in the table below.

SCIENCE COMBINATIONS
SUBJECT 1	SUBJECT 2
CHEMISTRY	BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY	PHYSICS
CHEMISTRY	MATHEMATICS
MATHEMATICS	COMPUTER STUDIES
PHYSICS	COMPUTER STUDIES
PHYSICS	MATHEMATICS
BIOLOGY	GEOGRAPHY
BIOLOGY	HOME SCIENCE
BIOLOGY	GEOGRAPHY
BIOLOGY	AGRICULTURE
BIOLOGY	MATHEMATICS
AGRICULTURE	GEOGRAPHY
AGRICULTURE	HOME SCIENCE
BUSINESS	COMPUTER STUDIES

Course Structure for Bachelor of Education Science

Bachelor of Education Science (BeD) is designed to make you a professionally qualified teacher who can competently handle Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects in Kenyan Secondary Schools as we as Middle Level Colleges.

In universities like Moi, students must take Chemistry and Mathematics, besides other content subjects like Physics, Botany/Zoology etc.) in the first Year.

You drop one of the content units and take you specialized subjects one being a major and the other being a Minor beginning from the second year.

You are needed to get the skills necessary to teach in KCSE level (Form 4 level) and therefore you will spend much of your time covering content for this subject.

The rest of the duration will be for covering the minor subject in your preferred Bachelor of Education Science subject combination- you teach this up to form 2 level, meaning that the content to be covered is going to be relatively less.

You will be done by the time the third year ends.

However, the professional methodology is given equal emphasis for both major and minor subjects.

Requirements to do Bachelor of Education (Science)

Universities offering Bachelor of education – Science in Kenya

The universities that offer Bachelor of Education – Science in Kenya are:

Kenyatta University (you even have the option of taking up the Kenyatta university long distance learning option)
- Moi University
- Kenya University
- Maseno University
- University of Nairobi

Chuka University and Meru University can also be excellent alternatives.

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