Sunday, 1 March 2015
Time to rethink exam oriented education system
What ails our education system? This has been the question on the lips of many Kenyans especially now we are waiting exam for last year candidates.
The answer has previously been sought from few intellectuals like me and managers of our education system.
However, today the debate on how to deal with challenges facing the sector is no longer preserved of group of scholars who may sometimes make proposal from narrow intellectual perspective.
It is no longer tenable to assign academicians the subsidiary role of reforming our education system.
The broader society must now be involved including the media, religious leaders, parents and ordinary citizens.
Ordinary folk sometimes tend to have better instinct than those immersed in academics when it comes to real issues facing a country.
Commentators on education matter have highlighted our preoccupation with examinations as one of the problems and blamed this trend for deteriorating standard of education.
Indeed, recent reports of leaked test papers circulating freely in our country strengthens this position.
The temptation to cheat can be irresistible to students because KCSE result can change a candidate’s life for the worse.
The few who break out in their respective trades irrespective of their average showing in the national exams do so either through their own curiosity and tenacity to explore a world that transcends examination or are lucky enough to get someone to call out the creativity in them.
How many of us have touched the vast majority of the curriculum covered in high school or college? The current situation where everyone is forced to study the same way must come to an end.
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The problem will be solved by both parties you and me in the system, from top to bottom; corruption, politics, dictatorship, tribalism remain to be the key issues hindering the raise of education standard, so l do support that the mode of study be changed , each and every student specialize in different mode of study.
ReplyDeletethis system is expensive government, allocate a lot of fund which is not reflected in our live.
ReplyDeleteEducation in our country has gone to the "dogs". The sector is grambling with lecturers and teachers always striking about salaries yet they do not produce results.
ReplyDeleteA clear framework should be in place to aid salvage what is left of our education sector.
Half baked graduates are given the power to read yearly.
its unfortunate that life has its measure of success and our education system has secured on -examination.although this is good,its also lame somehow..many of us have forgotten most of the content we learnt in previous years including primary..why? i just read to pass exams
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