A-level students to repeat only subjects they have failed in newly proposed curriculum
The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has said students at Advanced level (A-level) will be required to repeat only subjects they have failed or need to improve in the newly proposed upper education curriculum.
This was revealed on Sunday by the manager Secondary Department at NCDC, John Okumu during a press conference held at the centre headquarters.
Currently, students who fail to get desired points to advance towards their careers are made to repeat the whole sitting even when they have passed some of the subjects in their combinations.
However, with the new curriculum under review, Okumu said learners will not be required to repeat all the subjects if they pass some, or if they desire to repeat certain subjects for purposes of improving their scores.
“So, we are proposing that learners should only be made to repeat a failed subject, or a learner may not have failed because for example scoring an E is not failing but you can seat for the sake of improving your scores..you repeat only that subject in the other year,” Okumu said.
He also pointed out that they are proposing to vocationalise upper secondary education to ensure that learners are studying each subject as a vocation and not to simply study things which may not be relevant.
“So, by vocationalising education at upper secondary, we are not saying we are introducing vocational institutions here, but we want to ensure that every subject which the learner goes through, they look at the subject in terms of a vocation..For example, if I’m studying literature, I should not just study literature for the sake. In literature, I could learn poetry. So, I should be studying how do I become a poet. I should have the skills of writing poems, Okumu explained. Read More…
