By CHARLES WANYOROMore by this AuthorTeachers union boss Wilson Sossion has asked tutors to boycott training on the new competency-based curriculum, saying it is bound to fail. The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) secretary-general said for the curriculum to succeed, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) needs to employ at least three teachers to man each classroom and reduce the number of pupils attending a class at any given time to 28. Mr Sossion repeated his claim made earlier in the week that many teachers in public schools do not understand the new programme. “They are saying that teachers were trained, yet the outcome is indicating that even the trainers don’t even understand the framework of competency-based curriculum. He accused the government of being in a rush to change the 8-4-4 system, a curriculum he claimed was piloted for four years.

Source: Daily Nation March 24, 2019 18:33 UTC