New Kenyan Education System to be Rolled Out from January 2020

The new Kenyan education curriculum will be rolled out from January 2020, the government has announced.

Speaking during a press briefing on Saturday, Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed says the pilot for the new education system has been extended for 12 months to give her ministry and stakeholders more time to put up the required infrastructure.

"The new curriculum pilot will continue for another year, postponing the rollout for one more year to allow for alignment in the education sector and kick off in January 2020,” states Amina.

The implementation of the new 2-6-6-3 system was scheduled to start in January 2019 but Amina says there are loopholes that need to be sealed first.

“We have to make sure that everything is in place, enough teachers are trained… make sure that the books are the right ones…” she says.

In April 2017, the Ministry of Education launched a pilot program for the new system of education in 470 primary and pre-primary schools across the country in a bid to replace the current 8-4-4 curriculum, which has been used in the past three decades.

Under the 2-6-6-3 system, learners will go through two years of pre- Primary education, six years of primary (three years lower and three years upper primary), six years of secondary education (three years junior and three years senior secondary) and three years at the university.