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New proposed subjects for Junior Secondary Schools

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The Ministry of Education has reduced subjects for lower and upper primary schools as recommended by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform (PWPER).

The report on the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) was launched on August 1, 2023.

The PWPER recommended that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) rationalise the number of learning areas and curriculum designs in terms of scope and integration of subjects within learning areas, gaps, content overload and overlaps in Basic Education as follows.

Compulsory Subjects
  1. English
  2. Kiswahili or Kenya Sign Language (KSL)
  3. Mathematics
  4. Integrated Science
  5. Social Studies
  6. Business Studies
  7. Agriculture
  8. Pre-Technical and Pre-Career Studies
  9. Religious Studies Education which includes Christian Religious Education (CRE), Islamic Religious Education (IRE), and Hindu Religious Education (HRE)
Optional Subjects

In this category, a student is expected to take not more than one subject.

  1. Visual Arts
  2. Performing Arts
  3. Home Science
  4. Computer Science
  5. Other Languages (Indigenous Language, French, Arabic, German, Sign Language)

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