[Boniface Okendo, Standard]The government has an uphill task of providing 1.5 million places in secondary schools in the next 21 months to cater for anticipated double intake of learners that will be transitioning to secondary schools in January 2023. In 2023, pioneer learners under the new 2-6-3-3-3 Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) system will transition to junior secondary school after sitting the Grade Six national examinations. The report says the total number of Grade Six and Standard Eight learners expected to join secondary school in 2023 will be 2,571,044. Bungoma is the second county with the highest expected enrollment of 127,743 secondary school learners in 2023. The county has some 678 classrooms that can presently only hold 33,900 new secondary school learners, leaving a deficit of 83,063.

Source: Standard Digital February 22, 2021 07:07 UTC