Details of how Kenya's new school curriculum will be implemented emerged on Sunday as select teachers prepared to meet for skills training today at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development in Nairobi.
The new curriculum, whose implementation starts in January, will take seven years to be fully rolled out. Developed to replace the discredited 8-4-4 system, it places emphasis on continuous assessment tests (CATs) over one-off examinations, for a long time criticised as being too mechanical and results-oriented.
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