KUPPET proposes three-tier school system to fix CBC confusion
The union is proposing to have the JSS level fully equipped and independent of primary and higher secondary levels in a bid to resolve CBC challenges.
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) is pushing for the establishment of a three-level school system made up of primary, junior, and senior schools, in a bid to address the challenges facing the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
At the centre of the proposal is a call to make Junior Secondary School (JSS) an independent school level. The union says the current arrangement, where JSS is placed within primary schools, has caused confusion in administration, staffing, and union representation.
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The union is proposing to have the JSS level fully equipped and independent of primary and higher secondary levels in a bid to resolve CBC challenges.
Speaking during a seminar for KUPPET officials from Kilifi, Tana River, and Lamu counties at a hotel in Malindi, the union's national chairman, Omboko Milemba, said the union had previously recommended that junior schools be part of secondary schools, but the proposal was not accepted.
“We wanted junior school to be part of secondary schools, and we wrote letters and delivered them to every office, including the presidency, but we did not succeed on that because of many issues we know,” Milemba said.
“But we must change strategy for junior school to stand,” he added.
Junior Secondary School (JSS) students in class. (Photo: KICD)
He said establishing junior school as an independent institution within a three-tier structure would improve linkage with secondary school teachers and reduce confusion.
“Possibly it could be an independent school so that we have three levels of schools: the primary school, the junior school and then we have the higher school. That will enable the linkage between the secondary school teachers who are in the JSS and those who are in the senior school to link up, and it will be very easy."
KUPPET is also pushing for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), warning of a possible return to nationwide teachers’ strikes if the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) delays negotiations.
They said it has secured a meeting with the TSC on July 2 to begin CBA negotiations, following an official invitation from the Commission.
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