By Education News Reporter
A Community Based Organization (CBO) from Kisii County has faulted the President for proposing to appoint a task force to review the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC).
Led by Jared Nyagosia, Mwangaza Super CBO said that setting a commission was a waste of public resources.
“The system is already in place. Let the President fund it instead of setting up commissions that will duplicate it and bring it back with the same challenges,” he argued.
Nyagosia said that the curriculum was good but it attracted opposition because parents were bearing the brunt of implementing it and they were finding it hard to afford the same.
“The government should embrace the system and find donors to fund it instead of listening to self-motivated broke parents who have been impoverished by the ongoing global economic crisis and want to behave like the proverbial ostrich that buries its head in the sand,” he said.
He urged parents to embrace the system because it focused on what pupils have learnt but not on the hours spent the classroom competing for credits.
Mr. Nyagosia claimed that in the CBC approach, the learners work flexibly at their own pace to demonstrate mastery of the competencies in a chosen field of study.
He added that the system engaged students in the handling of study materials and enabled then to have ownership over their learning. That, he said, empowered the learners.
“The individualized learning allows the accommodation of a variety of learning styles which makes it truly a pleasurable experience,” he noted.
He appealed to all education stakeholders to support the system instead of ‘throwing the child with the bathing water’.
