School authorities in Kenya have indicated that due to a lack of resources and teachers, students in junior secondary schools, which will be implemented in Kenya’s new curriculum the following year, will attend current primary schools.
It came as more than 1.2 million candidate students in grade six (11-12 years) concluded their final assessment tests unsure of how they would transition to secondary school alongside students graduating in the older curriculum (13-14 years).
The transition appears to face several huddles, including the lack of classroom infrastructure and a shortage of teachers to adequately cover all the students who are supposed to join secondary school.
JUNIOR SECONDARY TO BE DOMICILED IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Junior secondary schools will be domiciled in primary schools, an interim report by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform shows. pic.twitter.com/G5D9cPL5QW
— State House Kenya (@StateHouseKenya) December 1, 2022
In an announcement on Thursday, a task force on the implementation of the new curriculum recommended that the students in the newer curriculum would study in existing primary schools and share some of the facilities in neighbouring secondary schools.
The education ministry is expected to build additional classrooms and a laboratory in each of the primary schools within the next one year.
The government is also set to recruit an additional 30,000 teachers by January next year to bridge the teacher shortage.
The presidency tweeted the recommendations:
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