MP Dekow Calls on Government to Recruit More Teachers for CBC System

Garissa township MP Dekow Mohamed has urged the government to quickly address challenges bedeviling the Competency Based Curriculum[CBC] among them posting enough teachers in schools.

Speaking at a Madarasa in Dekabure , Iftin ward, Dekow said there was no meaningful learning taking place in many schools in Garissa and across the region.

“Even before grade six pupils transitioned to junior secondary we were already facing a big shortage in terms of teachers following mass exodus on non-natives as a result of insecurity, and now all TSC did was to post a single teacher in each school,” he said.

“It is practically impossible for one teacher to  teach 14 subjects like it is currently the case in many schools. what this will do is that it will not only lead to poor grades but entire education standards will be compromised,” he added.

His comments come barely a week after MPs called on the government to speedily address challenges plaguing the competency-based curriculum (CBC) or else abolish it altogether.

In a rare show of unity, the MPs promised to continue pressing government to address the many challenges plaguing the new system of education that replaced the nearly four-decades-old 8-4-4 system saying that there is no meaningful learning going on despite the new uniforms for Grade Seven learners.

The MP also used the opportunity to launch an online application platform for bursaries which he said will go along way in improving access to education funding for students in secondary schools and colleges.

“I want to appeal to parents from the constituency with students in secondary schools seize this opportunity and apply for the bursary which only comes once a year. We want to complete the exercise before the end of march,” he said.

The newly sworn MP further discouraged parents against taking their children to private schools and instead take them to public schools where they stood a better chance of getting scholarship, and bursaries.

‘This obsession with taking our children to private schools even when you know that as a parent you are struggling to raise the schools fees should stop. It is much cheaper for you as a parent,” he said.

The MP said education was among his priorities in the constituency and he is working towards achieving his target by ensuring all students get support to fulfill their dreams.