The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has opened the Competency-Based Assessments (CBA) portal for learners choose preferred schools as they transit to the 6-2-3-3 system ( see list of schools here).

The CBA portal, also called Competency Based curriculum (CBC) portal, involves procedures on parents can register, capture and compare the scores of learners against the school selected.

It will be possible for a learner to register for any school of choice and at concurrently transfer from one institution to another.

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Once a learner has been registered a parent will be required to access the CBA portal through the KNEC website.

How to Register

• Login and select a grade and level
•  Click on Register Learners button
• Click on Add Learners button
• Capture leaner details are required
• Click on Save learner button

Its is important to note that the selection and registration process is only limited to Grade 3 for the Age-Based pathway or at Foundation and Intermediate for Stage Based pathway.

If an error is made during the registration process no need to worry since the council has made it possible to amend the process.

At this stage, a parent will select a learner, click on Edit button then on Save Learner button, you will be requested to update the details.

To remove a learner, a parent will be asked to select the learner then click on Delete button.

One of main requirements for a parent to transfer a learner transferring to another school is to provide the assessment number. If not available, the assessment number can be searched using the learner’s previous school code or school name.

At this stage, a learner will have to access the CBA portal through the KNEC website and follow the below procedures;

•  Login with the School Username and Password to select a Grade or Level
• Click on the Register Learners button
• Click on Add Learner from Another School (transfer) button
• Key in the Assessment Number for the learner then click the Find button
• Click on the Transfer button

After completing the above-required procedures, a transfer request shall be sent to the previous school. Upon accepting the request, the learners shall be transferred automatically.

KNEC advised that in case a learner faces challenges with transfer process, he/she can contact the Sub County Director of Education.

The government made it possible for a parent or learner to exercise full authority by declining a school of no choice. This also involves steps in which a learner will still have to visit the CBA portal.

Deputy President William Ruto has supported the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), saying it is a step in the right direction.
Ruto said his team will continue to have a conversation about CBC and have constant reviews to incorporate concerns raised so far.
“I want to say from the onset that the graduation that has taken place from knowledge and exam based education to the now knowledge, competences, skill and value based education is the right trajectory,” Ruto said.
“It is very important for us to understand that as Kenya Kwanza, we support the progression from knowledge and exam based to the new format of knowledge skills and competences as well as value based education,” the DP, who spoke yesterday during a Kenya Kwanza education stakeholders’ symposium at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi added.

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Ruto explained that the conversation Kenya Kwanza wants to have is that reviews be made in line with Unesco guidelines, which gives the latitude that every five years countries have to review their education curriculum and this is the moment.
He said sorting out the education system will remove the gray areas that have occasioned some of the challenges like degrees.
The DP also said it will also help in eliminating cases of people saying they went to school but have no known classmates or lecturers and the courses they did.
Deputy President further noted that his team has heard concerns from parents, teachers and various stakeholders on CBC and as Kenya Kwanza, they are seeking a robust conversation with the public to ensure there is an education system everyone is comfortable with.
This, he said, will lead the country to have quality, relevant and affordable education system.
Ruto made the remarks as Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha separately applauded the leading political coalitions for promising to retain CBC if they win in the August 9 polls.
Magoha said both Azimio-One Kenya and Kenya Kwanza, which had earlier threatened to scrap the curriculum if elected in the August poll, had since changed tune and would now retain the system if elected.
“I am now happy that the political class has accepted that CBC is here to stay,”

Magoha said. Speaking in Bungoma when he met education stakeholders, Magoha thanked the two leading coalitions for promising to implement the programme.
“It is good that the big political players will not play around with our children like chess,” the CS said.He said CBC is here to stay and asked parents not be misled by detractors.
And at the symposium held at Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Ruto said education is responsible for shaping and sharpening the country’s human capital.
He said today, the biggest contributor to Gross Domestic Product in terms of resources that raised as Government comes from human capital. “Education is the single most enabler of our human capital and that is why it is probably the most important discussion. We have agreed that as nation it is the single most important contributor to the economy,” he explained.

“As Kenya Kwanza, we decided we will not write our manifesto in some hotel room. We will have a robust engagement and we have collected a lot of views in the many economic fora. That information has been processed towards the final symposium held today,” he added
Ruto also said Kenya Kwanza will be happy to sign a charter with the education sector on agreed parameters on what needs to be done on issues like shortage of teachers, capitation, Higher Education Loans Board and all other areas of the sector.
“We want to engage in a way of arriving at education being the driver for our economic model and making sure bottom up is enabled by the kind of education we have,” Ruto said.
“Access, relevance, affordability and quality are issues we want to have a conversation about so that we can build a human capital to give us the edge to achieve the country’s goals and internationally competitive,” he added.
He said the goal is to ensure there are no half-baked people at the end of education chain but people with quality education.

Pioneer Competency Bases Curriculum (CBC), candidates currently in Grade Six, who should be transiting to junior secondary schools (JSS) in January 2023 will have to apply for the slots, Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha confirmed.

“First of all, the children will have to apply and we are going to tell them the number of slots available. We are almost completing the process. We encourage the private schools, which we will say are ready for junior secondary schools, to allow the children to apply on the public platform so that they are placed,” said Prof Magoha.

Magoha was speaking at Moi Educational Centre after an inspecting private schools’ preparedness to host JSS. According to the CS, the Grade Seven learners will not board in the new schools.

Magoha also confirmed the government’s plans to place Grade Seven learners from public schools in private schools to ease the stiff competition likely to arise due to double intake expected in January.

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The admission of Form Ones under the 8-4-4 system, and Grade Seven learners is expected to strain existing infrastructure. “Parents should not panic over the Grade Seven students since both the government and private schools will accommodate all the students. With 10,000 classes from public and another 5,000 from private schools, we will manage the transition,” said Prof Magoha.

The CS urged parent not to move the students to different institutions, maintaining that “competition will only surface during joining the senior secondary schools in Grace 10”. “It would be very important for the parents who already have their children in private schools to retain them in junior secondary facilities that are established within those schools so that the cut-throat competition that comes after Standard Eight be postponed to Year 10. It is just one additional year, so they will even be a little bit older than usual when they start competing now for the Senior school,” said Magoha.

Further, the former KNEC boss dismissed the argument that the students joined high school at a young age under the CBC, and that teachers were not trained to handle them.

“Who said that our teachers are not well-trained? Even in this school, we have had 12-year-olds before and even now. I am a doctor and I can tell you that the difference between a 12- and 14-year-old is not that serious. They even behave better,” he said.

The teachers employed by the teachers’ service commission, TSC, are set to begin their CBC trainings from 23^rd November 2020. This follows a Memo released by the teachers’ service commission to the regional and county directors of education.

The training, which is scheduled to end on 5^th December 2020, will go on alongside term two that has been programmed to end on 23^rd of December 2020.

The curriculum support officers, (CSOs) and CBC champions at the county level will be trained by the national master trainers. After the training, they will in turn train the zonal curriculum support officers and CBC champions.

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CBC training for School heads will last only a day while classroom teachers will attend a five day training on the same.

All the teachers attending the CBC training sessions will commute, except special needs education teachers and teachers from arid and semi arid areas, who will be expected to reside at the training venues. Commuters will be reimbursed their fare after the training session.

Targeted Teachers

The teachers’ service commission targets the following teachers for the CBC training:

1. All school heads from regular and special schools.
2. At least One grade 1- grade 3 regular / SNE teacher per school
3. At least two grade 4 regular / SNE teachers per school

The memo instructs county directors to invite the curriculum support officers and CBC champions within their counties for training by the trainer of trainers. The champions must be the ones that were appointed last year, unless the county directors get authorized by TSC to replace them.

The memo further directs the county directors to send invitation letters to the targeted teachers and heads, and to organize training venues within their counties.

All those attending the CBC training sessions will have to strictly adhere to the covid-19 protocols.