Differences between primary and comprehensive schools
Tuesday, August 1, saw the delivery of a report containing the conclusions and suggestions of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) to President William Ruto.
We will concentrate on the primary school system and how it differs from the comprehensive schools that were suggested in the PWPER research.
The comprehensive school will be governed by a principal and three deputies, as opposed to the current arrangement where a head teacher and one deputy head teacher oversee each primary school.
Eight classes are currently taught in elementary schools using the 8-4-4 system. Pre-primary, primary, and junior secondary are the three educational levels covered by Comprehensive schools.
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Currently, primary schools employ roughly 223,296 teachers. The total number of students attending comprehensive schools is anticipated to increase by more than half to 390,000 by 2024.
Teaching students in a class as a Teacher in Class / Courtesy is a TSC-registered ECDE teacher.
There have been unsuccessful attempts to bring digital literacy instruction into primary schools. The comprehensive school system intends to revive the programme and use it to speed up the delivery of CBC curriculum over the course of the following two years.
The primary schools that would get infrastructure upgrades and development priority were determined by the Ministry of Education. In the comprehensive school framework, funding and accountability for infrastructure development are devolved to the local level.
There are only sit-in exams in the primary school system. The comprehensive system suggests using ICT in classrooms to facilitate virtual evaluation.
The majority of funding for primary and secondary schools comes from the government, however there are four different sources that go towards the price of education in comprehensive schools.
These include higher government funding, annual standardised packages for each grade level, tuition fees for kids from wealthy backgrounds, and sponsorship- and public-private partnership-based partnerships.
The primary school funding model has not been updated since 2003, despite the comprehensive model’s recommendation for a funding review every three years.
Differences between primary and comprehensive schools
