Education CS George Magoha has said the Ministry of Education will roll out the Competency based Curriculum (CBC) in Grade Four in January next year.
He spoke at the KNEC headquarters on Wednesday as he released the KCSE 2019 results.
"The last batch of teachers are being trained this holiday and will be ready ahead of the Grade Four rollout. We are ready," Magoha said.
He said that the Ministry has supplied Grade Four textbooks to 97 per cent of the counties.
The remaining counties will be reached before schools open for first term in January. These are the regions where the Ministry encountered difficulties delivering books due to heavy rains.
To improve the quality of education, Magoha said the government has revised the lowest pre-service teacher training qualification from Certificate(P1) to Diploma level.
"A curriculum for this new level of training has been completed and the new cohort of learners will be admitted to various colleges in 2020," the CS said.
At the August National Curriculum Reforms Conference, President Uhuru Kenyatta pronounced that there will be no national examinations in Grade Six.
"To further provide directions on transition of the first CBC cohort from Primary to Junior Secondary School in 2023, I wish to announce that the Task Force that I setup to advise me on Curriculum Reforms is in the process of finalising Regulations and guidelines on the establishment of institutions under the Basic Education Framework," Magoha added.
Magoha further stated that the proposed regulations and guidelines will be subjected to public participation before gazettement.
"Part of the proposals that we will expect Kenyans to dialogue on will be a recommendation that the Ministry establish Transition Committees at the National, County and Sub-County levels," he said.
Magoha assured Kenyans that CBC will be anchored on evidence-based decisions.
As a result, the Task Force on Curriculum Reforms is recommending the set up of a watertight monitoring and evaluation system in 2020 that will include baseline data indicators that will be relied on from time to time to make decisions on prudent utilisation of resources across the sector.
A total of 627 students scored A plain up from 315 last year.
The best student was Tony Wabuko, from Kapsabet High School, who scored an A plain of 87.159 points.
Barasa Njeri of Kenya High School scored an A of 87.087 points.
Kaboge Odhiambo from Kapsabet High School got an A of 87.080 points; Anthony Owuor got an A of 87 points; while Natasha Wawira of Kenya High School got an A of 86.9 points.
