In Kenya, the Grade 10 senior school selection procedure will start on May 20, 2025.
The government has declared that students in Grade 9 will start choosing their Senior Secondary Schools on May 20.
While speaking at the National Convention on Competency-Based Education at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) on Thursday, April 24, Education PS Julius Jwan made the statement.
The PS states that the process is starting early to make sure that kids make a smooth move from junior secondary school to senior secondary school, which begins in grade 10.
“We have been working on guidelines to help our students move from Grade 9 to Grade 10. From May 20, we will begin allowing our students to make their choices for senior high schools,” he stated.
Bitok also said that the government was more focused on utilizing technology throughout the selection process, in contrast to prior years.
The Ministry of Education’s Deputy Director of Education, Fred Odhiambo, stated that schools will be categorized according to paths, such as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), Social Sciences (Humanities), Performing Arts, Music, and Athletics.
The selection procedure will then need students to choose 12 institutions. Three of these nine schools must be boarding schools located in the learner’s home county.
Day schools situated in the learner’s home sub-county will, by necessity, make up the other three school alternatives.
The Ministry of Education made this most recent significant statement just hours after CS Ogamba ordered that mathematics be reinstated as a required course in senior secondary schools.
It’s interesting to note that, as a result of Education CS Julius Ogamba’s order, Mathematics will now be a required course in SSS, even though it was originally intended to be an elective subject.
With this new instruction, the CS stated that students who select the STEM route will take pure mathematics, whereas the other two routes will have a less complicated version of mathematics.
The CS said, “We will have the STEM pathways taking pure mathematics, and the other two pathways having a form of mathematics, so that we have mathematics in all three pathways in senior school.”
In contrast to the 8-4-4 curriculum, which made mathematics a required topic, the Ministry had instructed that students in senior school now be given the choice of quitting the subject based on the path they choose.