Kenya’s education sector has — for the last six decades — been subjected to multiple fact-finding missions to reform a system that now stands at the crossroads of transition to a new ...

Kenya’s education ministry announced in March 2025 that mathematics would be an optional subject in senior secondary school, which begins in grade 10. Most students in this grade are aged 15 years.

Kenya’s education curriculum was reformed in 2017 to improve its quality – but now many Kenyans are calling for change again. Public disillusionment with the competency-based curriculum has forced a ...