[kictanet] Education and Our Future

[Phares Kariuki]

I agree... Though what's really worrying at this point is the education
bill, that's aiming to control private schools.

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:44 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> Ken Robinson says that schools have killed creativity.  From the recent
> Kenya Union of Teachers’ (KNUT) strike it was evident that we are lacking
> in creativity.  Three weeks of strike threatened the effectiveness of the
> Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) like never before.  Why is KNEC
> linked to KNUT?
>
> In 2010 GCSE candidates took their exam towards the end June and the
> results were out by August.  More than 700,000 students worldwide did
> mathematics and English while other subjects averaged more than 350,000
> candidates.  At the same time about 360,000 sat for the KCSE in the same
> year between October and November but the results came out at the end of
> February.  In other words marking our exams took twice as much as it took
> the Pearson’s Group (a private entity) to mark GCSE.
>
> GCSE exams are marked by retired teachers as well as other qualified
> people.  It is a contract for which you are paid 800 pounds for the three
> to four weeks exercise.  They heavily use IT to process the exams and some
> papers are marked by computers.
>
> The company offers a variety of qualifications, including A Levels (GCEs),
> Edexel (which is one of England, Wales and Northern Ireland’s five main
> examination boards and the BTEC suit of examination qualifications. It
> also offers work-based learning qualifications – including BTEC
> Apprenticeships through Pearson Work Based Learning, awarding over 1.5
> million certificates to students around the world every year.
> Since we benchmark on everything, is it not time we started to benchmark
> on our education?
>
> Ndemo.
>
>
>
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Phares Kariuki

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