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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>@ Mwangi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I agree with you - JAB should be abolished or its role redefined. A year ago, I went to pick my son after his final KSCE paper and was drawn towards the school’s notice board, where he and other students were busy going through the longest list of courses offered by public universities in Kenya. The school had asked them to pick whichever courses matched their ‘expected’ grade. I saw boys select courses based on the ‘big’ titles e.g. anthropology – without any idea what the courses entail!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I believe the problem is lack of career guidance in our schools. In a recent conference on Careers & Mentorship, ‘appointed’ career teachers expressed their frustrations at the lack of resources to guide the students. They feel overwhelmed and frustrated, especially because they do not have the right information to guide the students as expected. In one rural school, for example, the career teacher asked the Form 2 students to go home and agree with their parents what subjects to pick/drop at Form 3! My question is, how does a school expect a semi-literate parent in rural Kenya to guide their children on subject choices?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We need to learn from what Canada and the US are doing. Over 15 years ago, schools introduced games that stimulate the imagination of students by exploring their dreams about future lifestyles. Students are assisted to draw job profiles based on their dreams and learn why educational achievement is necessary to reach that position. By playing these games, students are able to relate their school experience to career choices, learn to make informed learning and life choices, discover personal skills and talents, relate learning to earning etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone interested in learning more about these tools, please contact me directly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Esther <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+emuchiri=andestbites.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>william janak<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 05, 2012 7:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> emuchiri@andestbites.com<br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Education and Our Future<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>True. Learning should be pleasurable. Now it is stressful, unnecessarily competitive and commercialized.<br><br>Oloo Janak.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> "<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>" <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:williamjanak@yahoo.com">williamjanak@yahoo.com</a> <br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 5, 2012 6:13 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Education and Our Future</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv1394493614><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'>We must move away from offering exams once a year to two or three times a year. This will enable fast learners to finish, move on and leave space for more learners. Further, examinations should never be a government core activity. This is why we have too many people with certificates but cannot help themselves.<br><br>Learning is supposed to be pleasurable such that we can identify talent and nurture it. We have for example doctors without passion or ability but we continue to admit students to medical schools based on grades. <br><br>We should never attempt to control education in any way. As Robinson says, children are not goods with sale by date. Learning is a process. Whether it takes you 12 years or 15 years to finish high school, it does not matter. What matters is whether you like what you are doing.<br><br>Since we have IT availability throughout the country, we should start continuous assessment such that the final exam will constitute only 40%. This effectively will emasculate thousands of young girls who fall through the cracks simply because they are able to afford sanitary towels and stay in school.<br><br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Sent from my BlackBerry®<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:black'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Phares Kariuki <<a href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com">pkariuki@gmail.com</a>> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Date: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:41:38 +0300<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>To: </span></b><span style='color:black'><<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Cc: </span></b><span style='color:black'>KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Subject: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Re: [kictanet] Education and Our Future<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066'>I agree... Though what's really worrying at this point is the education bill, that's aiming to control private schools. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:44 PM, <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Ken Robinson says that schools have killed creativity. From the recent<br>Kenya Union of Teachers’ (KNUT) strike it was evident that we are lacking<br>in creativity. Three weeks of strike threatened the effectiveness of the<br>Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) like never before. Why is KNEC<br>linked to KNUT?<br><br>In 2010 GCSE candidates took their exam towards the end June and the<br>results were out by August. More than 700,000 students worldwide did<br>mathematics and English while other subjects averaged more than 350,000<br>candidates. At the same time about 360,000 sat for the KCSE in the same<br>year between October and November but the results came out at the end of<br>February. In other words marking our exams took twice as much as it took<br>the Pearson’s Group (a private entity) to mark GCSE.<br><br>GCSE exams are marked by retired teachers as well as other qualified<br>people. It is a contract for which you are paid 800 pounds for the three<br>to four weeks exercise. They heavily use IT to process the exams and some<br>papers are marked by computers.<br><br>The company offers a variety of qualifications, including A Levels (GCEs),<br>Edexel (which is one of England, Wales and Northern Ireland’s five main<br>examination boards and the BTEC suit of examination qualifications. It<br>also offers work-based learning qualifications – including BTEC<br>Apprenticeships through Pearson Work Based Learning, awarding over 1.5<br>million certificates to students around the world every year.<br>Since we benchmark on everything, is it not time we started to benchmark<br>on our education?<br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/pkariuki%40gmail.com" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/pkariuki%40gmail.com</a><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.<br><br>KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'>-- <br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066;background:white'>Warm Regards,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066;background:white'>Phares</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066;background:white'> Kariuki<br><br>| <b>T</b>: <span class=MsoHyperlink>+254 720 406 093</span> | <b>E</b>: <a href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkariuki@gmail.com</a> | <b>Twitter</b>: </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066;background:white'>kaboro</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066;background:white'> |<b> Skype</b>: kariukiphares | <b>B</b>: <a href="http://www.kaboro.com/" target="_blank">http://www.kaboro.com/</a> |<br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/williamjanak%40yahoo.com" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/williamjanak%40yahoo.com</a><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. 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