KICD Unveils Secondary Students’ Specialisation Areas
Three areas of expertise for senior secondary school pupils have just been unveiled by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD).
As the nation is ready to phase out the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) by November 2023, this declaration is made.
The rules for these specialisations were presented by KICD at the Sheikh Zayed Hall in Mombasa at the 46th Annual Conference of the Kenya Secondary Heads Association (KESSHA).
The three areas of specialization—Arts and Sport Science, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)—will improve the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), according to KESSHA Chairman Mr. Kahi Indimuli.
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The STEM career track would provide options to study technical and engineering professions, career and technology studies, as well as pure and applied sciences.
KICD Unveils Secondary Students’ Specialisation Areas
School administrators have already started making plans to adapt to these changes in order to be ready by 2026.
While stakeholders advised that national schools offer all three pathways to their students, KICD wants each school to offer at least two of them.
According to Indimuli, a school should have 60% of its students enrolled in STEM, 25% in social sciences, and the remaining students in the arts.
Secondary schools were given the job of preparing for the first group of senior secondary school students, who will register in 2026, by KICD. They were also told to restructure departments and classrooms in accordance with the selected pathways.
According to Indimuli, “there will also be an assessment of the academic staff’s capacity, which will also include staff capacity building based on the pathways chosen.
Other decisions made at the KESSHA meeting included the government’s intention to hire 25,000 more teachers and the distribution of capitation money in the ratios of 50:30:20 for the first, second, and third terms.
The Ministry of Education was given Ksh628.6 billion in the 2023–24 budget, with a chunk of the money going towards hiring more teachers.
