LSK President Nelson Havi To File Petition Challenging CBC

Law Society of Kenya President Nelson Havi has said he will file a petition challenging the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) after parents decried high costs and inefficiency.

In a statement shared on Twitter on Wednesday, Havi said the petition has been informed by cries from parents, guardians, and teachers.

Havi argues that the education system in Kenya should not be an expensive, inefficient and ineffective experiment with children and their future as is the case with leadership.

“The education system in Kenya should not be an expensive, inefficient and ineffective experiment with our children and their future as is our leadership,” Havi Tweeted on Wednesday

The curriculum according to its critics has proven more expensive than the 8-4-4 system, with parents and guardians required to dig deeper into their pockets for books and other requirements.

Some parents have expressed concern about the cost of the new curriculum set to replace the 8-4-4 system especially the many books they have been asked to buy for their children who recently started the first term of the 2021 academic calendar.

The CBC was implemented to focus on equipping learners with skills was rolled out for Grade Four learners last year with the transition from primary to junior secondary school scheduled for 2023.

Former Secretary-General of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), Wilson Sossion in late August denounced the Curriculum as a deceptive system that threatens to undo the country’s educational successes.

Sossion criticized the CBC curriculum in an interview with Citizen TV, saying it was being implemented in an unprofessional manner

The CBC was launched in Kenya by the Ministry of Education in 2017. It was fronted by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) as the system to replace 8-4-4, which had been criticized for being heavy on theory. Yet, students could not transfer the knowledge to real-life situations

Physical and health education, mathematics, English, Kiswahili or Kenya Sign Language, science and technology, social studies, home science, and agriculture are among the eight subjects taught in the new Competency-based Curriculum (CBC)

The primary focus of the 2-6-6-3 education system is to equip learners with skills and not merely make them pass the end-of-cycle examinations like the 8-4-4 system.