The Ministry of Education (MoE) is conducting a workshop on ‘Reforming education in Kenya: the practice, opportunities, and challenges’ at Naivasha resort for its Education officers in the country.
The workshop, which began on the 28th of this month, is seen by MoE as a tactical way to impart strategies to its officers to match TSC’s influence and dominance on education matters in the field.
As seen by Education News, the head of the field services directorate, Nelson Sifuna, issued an invitation circular addressed to all regional, county, and sub-county directors of education. The circular called upon the officers to ensure attendance and arrange for private accommodation during the six-day workshop.
The workshop is aimed at uniting all educational professionals, where they are expected to share insights on emerging trends in education. The officers are said to be sharing strategies on how to manage the implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum under the new system of education.
During one of the sessions, the officers expressed concern about the ministry’s inability to provide them with the right infrastructure that matches the TSC’s. The officers feel that despite the MoE being the curriculum developers through KICD, TSC has taken a lead role in its implementation and training, leaving them with little to do.
“Our colleagues from TSC are everything on matters CBC; we only come in strongly on funds, school registration, co-curricular activities, and data,” said one of the directors who spoke to Education News after the first day of the session.
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The officers are further expected to collaborate on enhancing educational outcomes across the country, as the workshop conveners were expected to do after the exercise, crafting ways of collaborating with different government agencies to ensure that competency-based education achieves its vision and mission. Various stakeholders have continuously shown scepticism about the viability and relevance of CBE.
The Ministry of Education is reported to have an acute shortage of field officers, a factor attributable to insufficient funding from the treasury to carry out recruitment.
Recently, education stakeholders castigated the MoE for giving politicians the opportunity to irregularly employ quality assurance and standards officers. The officers are reported to have not gone through any interviews as required by the Public Service Commission.
By Naboth Murunga
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