In a bid to ensure inclusivity, Government is set to approve the new Advanced Level curriculum where students will be required to study up to 5 years in that secondary education level.
According to the proposed amendments in their curriculum, the students who have been studying A level for two years will now have a maximum of five years.
In this arrangement, the original 2 years still stand however the students will have a space or 5 years to redo their failed papers to cope up - hence assured inclusivity.
This will work like the University arrangement where students do remakes on failed papers. Initially, when a learner failed to attain the required 2 principle passes at A level to join University, they would be required to repeat the entire examinations set.
The deputy director curriculum review and instructional materials development at the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), Ms Bernadette Nambi, said the five years component is to enable a student who will not be able to finish A-Level in two years retake all the papers he or she will fail.
“You know some students are not very bright. These learners will be given a chance to finish all the papers they might fail in a period of five years. Since there is a high dropout rate under this level, we want to make it more flexible so that students are given an opportunity to finish all their papers in five years,” Ms Nambi said.
If the government approves this new curriculum, the pioneer students to undertake it will be joining senior five in 2025. It is because, the curriculum is aimed at pairing directly with the current lower secondary curriculum, whose pioneers are sitting their UCE Examinations in 2024.
