Wed, 03 May 2017 12:00:54 +0000 By SANDRA MACHIMA EDUCATION materials distributed in schools are rigorously evaluated before they are authorized by the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) to ensure they meet the required standard, Ministry of General Education’s CDC specialist, research and evaluation, Kennedy Jinaina, has said. But Mr Jinaina said the ministry was faced with challenges in book evaluation because authors wanted to use shortcuts and were reluctant to follow guidelines. He said the Ministry of Education, through the CDC, did not allow any material that was not approved by its office to be used in schools, saying heads of schools who procured such materials were censured. “Whatever material that is brought to our offices passes through thorough evaluation to ensure it is up to the standard, but the challenge we have sometimes is that some authors want to use shortcuts without following the procedure. ‘‘We have what we call supplementary and course […]
