CBC Classroom Contractors Given Ultimatum.
Contractors working on phase two of Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms have been given two weeks to finish the project and hand it over.
Prof. George Magoha, Cabinet Secretary for Education, stated that since the project’s inception two weeks ago, approximately 500 of the 3,500 classrooms have been completed.
This, he said, was behind schedule, and he asked the contractors to hurry up and finish the classrooms before the August 9 general election.
“I want to urge the contractors who are a bit slow that our end game should be around end of this month.
“Let us try and complete the remaining 3, 000 classrooms by the end of this month so that as we go into elections we have reached the target,” he said.
The CS stated that the ministry would press the contractors to deliver the classrooms on time in order to keep the CBC on track.
“We want to go to elections when we are a bit relaxed but if you will not have completed, then it means we shall continue working into the next government to ensure that the work is done and this will be unfair to us,” he said.
Phase one of the project saw the construction of 6,500 classes across the country. Private schools are expected to build another 4,000 classrooms, bringing the total number of CBC classrooms to 14, 000.
Speaking at Kisumu’s Otieno Oyoo Secondary School, where he commissioned two classrooms built under phase II of the project, Magoha stated that the government was on track to implement the new curriculum.
Magoha, who also attended a Nyanza region scouts camp at the school, called for the movement to be expanded in order to combat rising cases of indiscipline.
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He claims that the Scouts movement has instilled high levels of discipline in students over the years, transforming them into responsible citizens.
“Discipline is what is lacking in our schools. We must therefore expand the scouting movement in our schools and include it in co-curricular activities to ensure that our children are disciplined,” he said.
CBC Classroom Contractors Given Ultimatum
