• “I want to say this and in simple language, the CBC is here to stay. We have a duty as parents not to confuse our over five million children,” he said.
•Magoha said Kenya has heavily invested in CBC and there's no turning back.
People should stop confusing children and politicising the Competency Based Curriculum, Education CS George Magoha has said.
The CBC is here to stay and there's no turning back, he said on Friday.
Magaoh spoke at the sixth graduation ceremony at the University of Embu.
The government has allocated 25.9 per cent of the 2020-22 budget to education and so people should stop questioning and criticising the CBC system, the CS said.
Many parents and other stakeholders complain CBC involves too much work and expense by parents, many of them lacking time and money to help make the system work
The graduation of 1,570 graduands was held virtually to comply with Health ministry protocols to contain Covid-19.
UoE Chancellor Paul Musili and others attended.
The CS also said the ministry will not retreat on ensuring the CBC is fully implemented.
“I want to say this in simple language... the CBC is here to stay. We have a duty as parents not to confuse our more than five million children," he said.
Magoha urged parents to pass on a positive attitude towards CBC onto their children.
He praised the university for ensuring its updated teachers training curriculum matches CBC requirements.
The CS said the ministry has trained more than 200,028 teachers to ensure there are enough teachers to implement the new curriculum.
He called on graduates to be open-minded and engage in fields with opportunities.
“I call upon all of you to go beyond borders. Stop having a closed mentality and understand improved technology can enable you work anywhere in the world,” he said.
He praised university management for being rated the best performing state corporation.
Chancellor Musili urged graduates to rise to the occasion and face economic challenges using skills and information gained from the university.
“My call to you is to be courageous and face the social and economic challenges brought about by the Covid-19 invasion," he said.
(Edited by V. Graham)