The Presidential Working Party of Education Reforms has recommended that the contentious Competency Based Curriculum be implemented with modifications.
The committee which on Tuesday submitted its report to President William Ruto said the CBC curriculum should be reviewed to reduce the workload on pupils.
The committee recommended that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development reduces the number of learning areas from 9 to 7 at Lower Primary.
The learning areas will be reduced from 12 to 8 at Upper Primary and 14 to 9 at Junior School.
The learning areas at Pre-Primary to be 5 and at Senior School to be 7.
This, the panel noted, would address overload and overlaps.
The committee revealed that of the 5,205 submissions received regarding the implementation of the education structure, 51.2 per cent opined to retain the structure with a review.
A further 9.6 per cent proposed its retention as it is.
However, 21.1 per cent and 12.9 per cent of the submissions proposed discontinuation of the structure and reverting to the 8-4-4 structure with improvement, respectively.
According to the report, a total of 2,563 submissions were made from stakeholders regarding the transition to Junior Secondary School.
Nearly all the submissions 93 per cent recommended hosting Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) in existing Primary schools.
A few 5 per cent suggested hosting JSS in existing secondary schools.
Only 2 per cent of the submissions suggested new schools for JSS.
