President Uhuru Kenyatta has defended the Competence based Curriculum (CBC) saying that it will address employment challenges in the country.
Speaking during the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Kenyatta said that the new curriculum is competitive while rubbishing complaints raised by stakeholders.
“We have also delivered a national competency based curriculum and on universal access to schooling, which will further boost competitiveness of our workforce,” the president said.
President Kenyatta further said that CBC was one of the greatest thing he has achieved in his administration.
“We are implementing ambitious programmes to prepare the country… Our investments in roads, air and port infrastructure, and critical health care facilities throughout the country, are the most extensive and ambitious in our history,” he said.
“Kenya is blessed with a youthful, well-educated, and productive population that has managed to build one of the most vibrant mixed economies in Africa,” he added.
This comes after a petition was filed in the High Court by the Law Society of Kenya President Nelson Havi seeking to prevent further implementation of the new curriculum following complaints from parents, teachers and other stakeholders in education.
Havi said that the news curriculum was expensive, inefficient and ineffective.
“An order of injunction be issued restraining the government from further implementing the Kenya Competence-Based Curriculum introduced through the basic Basic Education Curriculum Framework, 2017 and Sessional Paper 1 of 2019 on Policy Framework for Reforming Education and Training for Sustainable Development in place of the existing system and structure of basic education (8-4-4) codified under Section 41 of the Basic Education Act no 14 of 2013 and the existing curriculum in respect thereto,” reads part of the petition.
Responding to the filed petitions, Education CS George Magoha said that he was ready to battle in court with those seeking to halt CBC.
The National Parents Association also said they will also be defending CBC in court while insisting that those who were complaining about the curriculum were not genuine parents.
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