Education Ministry Finalizes Draft Proposals for Presidential Working Party Reforms
The Ministry of Education has finished the draft policy and legislative proposals to implement the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms’ (PWPER) report and recommendations.
As a result, Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has encouraged stakeholders and the public to submit written memoranda on policy and legislative ideas for sustainable growth in education, training, and research.
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The official encouraged stakeholders and members of the public to submit any input they might have on the policy documents by March 15th, 2024, in accordance with Articles 10 and 232 of the Constitution on public participation.
President Dr. William Samoei Ruto officially launched the PWPER report in August 2023. The Working Party, chaired by Prof. Raphael M. Munavu, examined the challenges affecting Kenya’s education sector, including access, relevance, equity, and quality, education governance and financing, and experience with competency-based education (CBE).
The 2024 Sessional Paper on a Policy Framework for Educational Reforms in Kenya repeals colonial education systems that gave poor education and trained locals for unskilled labor and menial jobs.
This was intended to educate people to serve at the bottom of society, exacerbating racism, inequalities, disparities in access, and discrimination against indigenous people.
Furthermore, education, training, and research reforms aim to present a range of cultures and traditions in knowledge while also promoting Afrocentrism in the curriculum.
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The policy promotes and coordinates innovative, competence-based, equitable learner-centered education, training, and research to support social cohesion, innovation, and sustainable development. It also provides a list of high-quality and inclusive education and training for the transition to a knowledge economy.
Education, training, and research have national goals to foster nationalism and patriotism, promote national unity, and accelerate socioeconomic development through innovation and skills. Education, training, and research will equip students to promote individual growth and self-fulfillment, uphold sound moral principles, advocate for social equality, and embrace responsibility.
Finally, Kenya’s rich and diversified cultures will emerge as a result of the culmination of national education goals, which translate into international consciousness that promotes positive attitudes toward other nations, good health, and environmental protection.
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Education Ministry Finalizes Draft Proposals for Presidential Working Party Reforms