By Hilton Mwabili
Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has said that the government is ready to implement the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) in junior secondary schools since 572 CBC classrooms have been completed.
Speaking in Mombasa where he commissioned a CBC classroom at Aldina Visram secondary school, the CS said that 6470 classrooms are being constructed in the first phase of the project.
He told naysayers that the fact that more than 500 classrooms have been completed and are ready for commissioning is clear proof that CBC is here to stay.”
He hailed the national government officers for their excellent work in the implementation of the government directive and encouraged them to continue ensuring that the CBC classroom projects are completed within the stipulated timelines.
The CS singled out Coast, North Eastern, Nyanza and Eastern regions ministries of education and interior and national coordination officers for their sterling performances in the implementation of the government directive.
He directed that the local contractors involved in the construction of CBC classrooms should be paid.
‘The government has prudently utilized the funds budgeted for the CBC classrooms project. We have reduced the price of each classroom, from Sh1.26 million to Shs 788,000 including taxes
and we are at 56 percent completion rate,’ he pointed out.
On the national examinations, the CS said Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations are ready to be administered next month.
He assured candidates and parents that the government has placed elaborate measures to ensure registered candidates sit for the final primary school examinations without any hitches.
He further added that the examination centers have been consolidated and security deployed to secure them and warned teachers against being syndicated in examination irregularities.
“The government has ensured that there is no leakage of the examinations,” he added.
He said that there were ongoing plans to ensure that the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) candidates in far flung schools sit their examinations within their schools without being relocated to other examination centres.
“No child will trek 5 or 10 kilometers to sit for examinations, “he said
