TSC CEO Nancy Macharia. /CFM-FILE.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 18 – The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has this week started a massive training exercise for 106, 320 teachers in preparation for the rollout of Grade IV Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) in January.
Teachers Service Commission CEO Nancy Macharia Wednesday said the number includes 7,000 Special Needs Education teachers and 18,000 teachers from private schools.
By the end of the exercise, Macharia said the country will have 228,000 teachers trained on CBC.
“This means we have a critical mass of staff who will deliver the curriculum,” she said.
Education cabinet Secretary George Magoha has also revealed that the Ministry has already supplied Grade Four textbooks in 97 per cent of the counties in the country.
Speaking during the release of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 2019 examination results, Magoha said the remaining counties will be reached before schools open for the First Term in January.
“Indeed, these are the regions where the Ministry encountered difficulties to deliver books due to the ongoing rains,” he said.
In October, the ministry ordered that all Grade IV textbooks be printed in Kenya after it awarded contracts to seven publishers to supply the required 14.4 million textbooks.
The seven publishers picked include the State-owned Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB), Longhorn Publishers, Mountain Top Publishers, Moran Publishers, government-run Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, One Planet Publishers and Oxford University Press.
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