Prime Cabinet secretary Musalia Mudavadi has assured parents and education stakeholders that the government will factor in recommendations made to the CBC taskforce.
Mudavadi said the government through the Ministry of Education will use the recommendations to chart the way forward for the education sector.
“What we want to see is that all views from all stakeholders are brought on board,” he said.
Mudavadi spoke on Tuesday at Kilimani Primary School in Nairobi where he led government officials in supervising the ongoing KCPE and Grade 6 national examinations.
Last week, the task force looking into the education system in its preliminary report recommended the country should have a five-year transition period to phase out the 8-4-4 system.
According to the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms, within that period, the country would have developed adequate infrastructure for the new education system.
Kilimani Primary School headteacher Lucy Apondi said as teachers, they presented what they felt were the challenges that faced the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum.
“We are hopeful that the task force in its wisdom will see the need to largely incorporate our views as much as they will also be looking at the views presented by parents and other stakeholders,” she said.
Mudavadi wished all candidates sitting for KCPE and KPSEA exams all the best in their examinations.
He assured them that the government will give them all the support for a smooth examination.
“I am happy that I was here early today morning and the exam papers reached the school on time. I want to hope that this flawless exercise has been witnessed across the country as it has been here at Kilimani Primary in Nairobi,” Mudavadi said.
Kilimani Primary School has 185 candidates sitting for this years’ KCPE examination and 164 sitting for the Grade 6, CBC transition exams.
