The task force set up to review the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) has issued a clarification of leaked preliminary report of its findings on the the education system.
In a statement issued on Sunday, November 20, the Ministry of Education flagged the report as fake and urged stakeholders as well as learners and their parents to disregard it.
The report claimed that the task force, which was set up by President William Ruto, had rejected the new education system; 2-6-3-3-3.
The system was designed to let learners spend 17 years in the education system: two years in pre-Primary Level, six years in Primary, three years in Junior Secondary, three years in senior secondary and three years in tertiary.
Instead, the fake report recommended for a newly designed system 2-6-2-4-3 where learners would spend two years in pre-Primary Level, six years in Primary, two years in Junior Secondary, four years in senior secondary and three years in tertiary.
"After collecting views from stake holders and the public, the working party has published a preliminary report.
"The task force has recommended 2-6-2-4-3 to replace the initial 2-6-3-3-3 system of education," read the fake report.
The preliminary report also recommended that Junior Secondary School (JSS) be domiciled in the existing primary schools arguing that learners, aged between 13 and 14 years, were too young to transition to high schools and may be bullied by the older students.
Other reasons for JSS being domiciled in primary schools were for full utilisation of existing infrastructure in primary schools and that primary school teachers were apt and aware in handling the needs of the learners. Their counterparts in secondary schools were conditioned to attending to more self reliant learners.
Other recommendation featured in the leaked document were employment of more teachers, transfer of employment of pre-primary teachers to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) from the counties as well as internet provision in all learning institution.
In an earlier interview, the chair of the task force, Raphael Munavu, noted that the final report would be forwarded to the head of state first at the beginning of December 2022.
After an analysis by President William Ruto, the recommendations would then be gradually rolled out publicly.
The report is scheduled to be tabled in Parliament in a week's time.
