BABU OWINO ADVOCATES AGAINST THE CBC CURRICULUM

Member of Parliament for Embakasi East Paul Ongili Owino famously known as Babu Owino, says that the Kenya Kwanza government should do away with the newly introduced CBC curriculum saying that it is wasting the children.

According to Babu Owino, the New Curriculum is misguiding the children who are now being used as try and errors when it comes to testing something to see if it is going to work.

“We need to do away with Competency Based Curriculum CBC which has become incompetency based curriculum IBC it’s wasting our children who are being used as control experiments.”

The New Implemented Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) is a new system of education designed by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) team that was launched by the ministry of education back in the year 2017.

CBC is generally designed to emphasize the significance of developing skills and knowledge and also applying those competencies to real life situations.

Now what has happened to the new one is that things are now getting more real and live compared to the way they were in the past.

The young children especially are the ones who are now facing this parents have raised their concerns saying that it’s expensive to meet the ends of the curriculum as they are so demanding.

The goal of CBC now is to enable children have values, knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in a highly competitive world.

The main difference is that 8-4-4 focuses more on mastery of content, which encourages rote learning, while CBC 2-6-3-3 focuses on learners’ performance of skills and competences that are observable.