The Ministry of Education (MoE) has been challenged to improve infrastructure in secondary schools in the coastal region so that more are upgraded to national status to ensure there is a countrywide balance in the implementation of the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC).
Speaking at a fundraiser in aid of Mwaeba Secondary School in Ganze Sub-county, leaders led by Gender, Culture and National Heritage Cabinet Secretary (CS) Aisha Jumwa, lawyer George Kithi, Ganze MP Kenneth Kazungu and Kilifi County Executive Committee Member (CECM) Felkin Kaingu, noted that most secondary schools in the county are ill-prepared to handle the CBC education system.
Jumwa said that students will lose out on science subjects since only two schools that are categorized as national, which are the only category eligible to offer the sciences.
“The STEM subjects will not be taught in extra-county schools and only national schools will be able to offer the subjects and there is need to upgrade our schools in all sub-counties to national level,” she said, asking MPs in the seven sub-counties to invest a bigger chunk of their NGCDF on infrastructure development in select secondary schools.
This way, they will be able upgrade them to national status.
“Here in Ganze we can upgrade Sokoke, Vitengeni or Godoma secondary schools to national standards so that we can compete fairly with learners from the rest of the country,” she said.
Her sentiments were echoed by Kaingu, who said that only two schools, Bahari Girls and Ribe Boys, are eligible to offer sciences in the whole county.
Lawyer George Kithi said only education will salvage residents of Ganze.
“I am speaking as an example of people who excelled through education. I challenge our children to take education seriously,” he said.
The leaders also mobilized resources to enable a local boy to join high school after he failed to secure various scholarships.
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