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Boost For Curriculum Reforms as
President Kenyatta Unveils New
State Department to Midwife CBC
President Uhuru Kenyatta has today “In this regard, to ensure education system responsive to the
unveiled a new state department to effective implementation of these demands of the modern world and
oversee the ongoing implementation recommendations, and other rallied Kenyans to back the process.
of the Competence Based Curriculum curriculum reforms, I have on this 9th “We are at a tipping-point in our
(CBC). Day of February, 2021 set my hand and education system. The old must give
The new State Department for presidential seal and established a new way to the new. The summons of our
Implementation of Curriculum State Department for Implementation times requires us to re-imagine how
Reforms within the Ministry of of Curriculum Reforms vested in the we have educated our children.
Education has been tasked with the Ministry of Education,” President “It requires us to be bold, and not
roll of the new education system Kenyatta declared. rigid. It calls us to imagine a system
including recommendations of a The Head of State announced the that creates responsible citizens as
taskforce whose report the President changes at Kenyatta International opposed to subjects; a system that
launched on 9th February. Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi celebrates the creative potential of all
“The Taskforce has made several County when he presided over the our children as opposed to one that
recommendations and consulted unveiling of a taskforce report dubbed leaves them with labels of failure, if
widely including through 11 sector- ‘Enhancing Access, Relevance and they do not pass exams;
based pre-conferences. This is Quality for Effective Curriculum “And a system that brings about
important because it underscores Reforms Implementation’. freedom as opposed to conformity.
my Administration’s commitment The Head of State, who recalled This is the promise of the Competency
to adhere to the tenets of public Kenya’s curriculum reforms over the Based Curriculum,” the President
participation, as envisioned in our decades, said CBC will make Kenya’s said.
constitution.
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