Gov't Changes Tune, Announces New 2-6-6-3 Education System Will Be Rolled Out in January 2019

The government now says that the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) will be rolled out from January 2019.

This comes days after Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed announced that the implementation of the new 2-6-6-3 education system had been pushed to 2020 to give the government and stakeholders more time to set up the required infrastructure.

Amina also said this would allow the government to train and hire more tutors ahead of the rollout of the curriculum.

However, in a statement dispatched to newsrooms on Saturday, CS Amina says the government has decided to commence a “methodical and carefully organized phased roll-out” of the new education curriculum to replace the current 8-4-4 system.

She says the implementation will begin with pre-primary I and II as well as Grades one, two and three.

“Early in the New Year, the Ministry of Education will issue a detailed roll-out plan and timetable for the other grades that will lead to the last cohort of pupils sitting for their Kenya Certificate of Primary education (KCPE) in the year 2023 and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in the year 2027,” says CS Amina in a statement.

She further states that a National Secretariat will be set up to steer the roll out of CBC and prepare curriculum designs for Grade 4 by March 2019.