CBC’s curriculum is about to collapse in the wake of today’s court decision.
The Curriculum at CBC Is About To Collapse. The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) claims that since the court prohibited recruiting teachers for internships, the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is in risk of dying.
Administrators at Kuppet hailed the court’s decision, but they also said that the Junior Secondary School (JSS) is in danger since it might mean that the teachers of the pupils lose their jobs.
The union has suggested that the Teachers Service Commission not appeal the Employment and Labour Relations Court’s (ELCR) decision, but instead alter the interns’ contract to a permanent, pensionable one.
Secretary-General Akelo Misori delivered the following remarks at the Kuppet offices in Nairobi on Thursday. “We implore the TSC to consider legal and just ways to address the shortfall in teaching services instead of appealing the ruling in conjunction with Kuppet and other interested parties.”
“This is not how qualified teachers could be categorized,” he said.
Judge Bryrum Ongaya ruled on Wednesday that TSC had violated the intern instructors’ entitlement to fair labor standards. This is due to their qualifications and licensure as teachers.
The CBC Curriculum Is About To Fail
“If the respondents had demonstrated statutory regulatory or policy arrangements,” the first respondent (TSC) would have the right to hire interns. In order to effectively address the staffing demands of public schools, Justice Ongaya states that “ideally, the first respondent should hire registered teachers on nondiscriminatory terms.”
Misori accused TSC of politicization and of not doing its job as an independent state agency.
According to him, “it is a real indictment that it (TSC) lost its independence and therefore followed other tracks when they were engaged in this casual manner in the determination of internship.”
He set the task for the panel to work with the Legislature to get additional financing in order to break the imminent impasse in the education sector.
CBC’s curriculum is about to collapse in the wake of today’s court decision.
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