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Why nothing will change after the 'shift' from CBC to CBE

By Wycliffe Osabwa | 12h ago

Grade three pupils in doing an assessment under curriculum-based competency (CBC). [File, Standard]

I marveled at the recent declaration of a supposed change of system from Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) to Competency-Based Education (CBE). In reality, there wasn’t any change but a clarification.

Instructively, CBC was the curriculum, and CBE the actual holistic approach. Our hurried implementation of the new order seems to have blinded our focus.

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