CBC Curriculum On The Verge Of Collapsing. The Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is in danger of dying, according to the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet), since the court banned hiring teachers for internships.
Kuppet administrators praised the court’s judgment but stated that the Junior Secondary School (JSS) is in a precarious situation because it may imply that the students’ teachers are removed from their positions.
The union has recommended that the Teachers Service Commission change the interns’ contract to a permanent, pensionable one rather than appealing the Employment and Labour Relations Court’s (ELCR) ruling.
On Thursday, Secretary-General Akelo Misori made the following statement at the Kuppet offices in Nairobi. “We urge the TSC not to appeal the judgement but to work with Kuppet and other stakeholders in thinking through legal and just means to bridge the deficit in teaching service.”
“Teachers who are qualified could not be categorised in this manner,” he stated.
On Wednesday, Justice Bryrum Ongaya declared that TSC had infringed upon the intern instructors’ right to fair labor practices. This is because they are licensed teachers and are qualified.
CBC Curriculum On The Verge Of Collapsing
“The first respondent (TSC) would be entitled to hire interns if the respondents had demonstrated statutory regulatory or policy arrangements.” According to Justice Ongaya, “ideally, the first respondent should hire registered teachers on nondiscriminatory terms to meet the best staffing needs in public schools.”
Misori charged TSC with being politicized and failing to carry out its duties as a separate state organization.
“So when they were engaged in this casual manner in the determination of internship, it is a real indictment that it (TSC) lost its independence and therefore followed other tracks,” he stated.
In order to break the impending impasse in the education sector, he threw down the gauntlet to the commission: work with the Legislature to secure additional funding.