List Of CBC Subjects That Have Been Dropped By KICD

The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) is set to reduce the number of learning areas for learners in the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) starting January 2024.

On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, President William Ruto approved the recommendations of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) and ordered their immediate implementation.

According to the report, students under the new curriculum, which is CBC will have reduced subjects starting term one of 2024. The learning areas will reduce from 9 to 7 for Grades One to Three.

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Learning areas will also be reduced from 12 to 8 for Grades 4 to 6 and from 14 to 9 for Grades 7 to 9. The number of learning areas will be 5 in pre-primary and 7 in Junior and Senior School (Grades Seven to Twelve).

KICD has so far only published the new number of lessons for Junior Schools (Grades Seven, Eight, and Nine). KICD will release the new learning areas for other Grades in due course.

Below are the new compulsory and optional subjects in junior school. Two subjects i.e Health Education and Life Skills were dropped.

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Compulsory Subjects

1. English
2. Kiswahili or Kenya Sign Language (KSL)
3. Mathematics
4. Integrated Science
5. Social Studies
6. Business Studies
7. Agriculture
8. Pre-Technical and Pre-Career Studies
9. Religious Studies Education which includes Christian Religious Education (CRE), Islamic Religious Education (IRE), and Hindu Religious Education (HRE)

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Optional Subjects

In optional subjects, a student shall take one subject

1. Visual Arts
2. Performing Arts
3. Home Science
4. Computer Science
5. Other Languages (Indigenous Language, French, Arabic, German, Sign Language)

Note that Physical Education (P.E.) shall be offered to all learners as a compulsory to support the development of the Psychomotor Domain.

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