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Senior school gamble: Crisis looms in the countdown to Grade 10 intake

KICOSHEP junior secondary students recite a Swahili poem during Tamasha ya Ulibwende wa Kiswahili at Standard Group, Mombasa Road, on March 15, 2025. [David Gichuru, Standard]

With barely five months before Grade 9 learners join Grade 10, the process is descending into confusion as it stumbles from one crisis to another.

The Ministry of Education has changed rules so many times that parents, teachers, and even school heads are unsure what January will look like for the first senior secondary school cohort under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).

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