By Allan Kibet
Ministry of Education has clarified that the junior secondary school will be offered in both boarding and day secondary schools across the country under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
In a circular seen by Education News and signed by CS Magoha, all the existing boarding and day secondary schools will admit learners transiting from Grade 6 to Grade 7.
Magoha revealed that the ministry has also identified 1,500 primary schools that will host junior secondary school due to their adequate learning and teaching facilities and land for physical expansion. Some of the selected schools will be developed further to have full-fledged secondary wing in the future.
He added that the ministry has been in consultation and has advised private schools, especially in urban areas to set up stand-alone junior secondary school to provide chances for learners to transition from primary to secondary level.
The CS assured Kenyans that implementation of CBC is on course and that, systems and structures for transition from Primary to Junior Secondary are in place.
Implementation of CBC and transition from primary to junior secondary and later senior secondary school is based on the recommendations of a Taskforce that was appointed by the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof George Magoha, in 2019 and which concluded and handed over its report to President Uhuru Kenyatta in February, 2021.
