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The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on Friday 25 September announced that they are going release a new education curriculum draft which is meant to enforce major changes in the education system. The education draft was presented to the Cabinet and was approved on September 22. Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora said that the new education syllabus is meant to modernise the education system to be in line with modern technologies and an assessment of the schools’ infrastructure is going to be conducted to see if they are ready for the new system. “My ministry will proceed to produce subject syllabi, restructuring of Grade Seven General Paper to include Agriculture and development of specimen papers for Grade Seven and Ordinary Level.” 

The Minister also said that the new Curriculum framework will prepare graduates of the education system to have the following skills: critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, leadership skills, good communication skills, team building and technological skills. The Framework outlines the following learning areas for the three learning levels: 

Subjects such as Agriculture, languages, Information Communication Technology, Science, Maths, Science, Statistics and Physics are going to be introduced at an earlier stage in schools since some stakeholders suggested that subjects like Maths, Science and Technology should be taught from as early as Early Child Development.