A row is simmering between the Ministry of Education and key education stakeholders over the proposal to lower teachers’ minimum entry grade to training colleges.
Parents and teachers unions have joined the teachers’ employer in rejecting the push by the Ministry to lower P1 teachers minimum training grade to D.
Persons wishing to train as teachers are presently required to have a minimum Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) grade of C and also post quality scores in the teaching subjects. The Ministry, through the newly established Kenya National Qualifications Authority (KNQA) has set C– as the minimum diploma entry grade and D for certificate courses.
The Government decision to lower P1 Certificate entry is a well thought out idea that a commoner can oppose but an Educationist like myself will surpot it, by % of %.
Those who oppose should tell us, if Universities admit Diploma With C- who will go for P1 with C+ or C- ?. We need teachers at P1 level at all times and this are the backborn of elementary education in the world. May Diploma and Graduate are on toes looking for greener pastures.
Years when education output was very good the Teachers were Standard 8, but the brains they produced were so perwerful than the current graduates who can not place prepositions in a sentense construction today.
Wanga John Wycliffe
Former Teacher
Tutor,
Principal
Thanks.