Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has directed that some form of mathematics be reinstated as a compulsory subject in the senior secondary schools.
Speaking during the National Conversation on the Competency-Based Curriculum on Thursday, Ogamba revealed that the ministry has heard the concerns of the stakeholders and reached the conclusion that some form of mathematics is made compulsory in all pathways. "The majority of the stakeholders during the CBC dialogue were of the view that mathematics should be compulsory in senior school.
We have listened to your concerns, consulted with KICD, and reached a resolution that some form of mathematics be made compulsory for the other two pathways that are not STEM," Ogamba directed.
According to the CS, with this new direction, those students who chose the STEM pathway will take pure maths, while the other two pathways will have a simpler version of mathematics. ''We will have the STEM pathways having pure maths and the other two pathways having a form of maths so that we have maths in all three pathways in senior school,'' the CS explained.
