Mathematics will remain compulsory in primary and senior schools, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba now says.
According to Ogamba, this follows extensive consultations with stakeholders where a proposal last month to make it optional was dropped. "Majority of stakeholders during competency based county dialogues were of the view that mathematics as a subject should be compulsory in senior school," said Ogamba on Thursday, April 24.
Arts students will now be required to learn a simplified version of the subject.
This is contrary to an initial proposal to make Maths optional for learners under the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), marking a drastic shift from the phased out 8-4-4 system.
