The five-day training of trainers for the upcoming senior schools retooling is at the homestretch, with concerns voiced by a number of field officers, particularly Curriculum Support Officers (CSOs), who were not invited to attend the workshop.
CSOs who spoke to Education News from the Nairobi, South Rift, and Nyanza regions lamented being left out.
Yet, they will be required to monitor the implementation of the Competency-Based Education next year as it moves to senior schools.
“Who will be monitoring the implementation of the same curriculum next year if not us?” John, a CSO who had been left out of the ongoing training, posed.
The officer further wondered why they were given a chance during the junior school retooling exercise, which, in essence, has the same content as the senior schools.
Education news confirmed that the training content for both junior and senior schools is the same, thereby corroborating the officers’ claims.
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In other related news, it has been established that the failure to register special schools with prevocational and vocational classes has resulted in many of them being excluded from the ongoing retooling exercise in the North Rift.
Nandi, Uasin Gishu, and Elgeiyo Marakwet were reported to have no teachers’ training for pre-vocational and vocational in the ongoing retooling exercise.
The named counties, however, are known to have prevocational and vocational levels, but they are not mapped by the Ministry of Education as such.
Failure to register schools to offer the two levels in the mentioned counties is heavily blamed on the quality assurance and standards officers, who are said to have slept on the job, either not going around for monitoring or sometimes demanding exorbitant payments to carry out the registration of schools.
The situation is said to have denied prevocational and vocational learners in the affected counties the opportunity to have their teachers retooled in preparation for the CBC rollout next year.
By Naboth Murunga.
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