The Ministry of Education on Tuesday dismissed reports alleging plans of redeploying all teachers using a new system.
In the widely circulated post that has since been flagged by the Ministry, it claimed the redeployment would be done based on the subject combination.
The Ministry initially announced a new categorisation of schools as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) centres, Humanities and Arts Schools, and Creative Arts and Sports Schools.
Nonetheless, the flagged post claimed that the national schools would be categorised as STEM centres while extra county schools categorised as creative arts and sports centres.
The fake post also claimed that county schools would be categorised as Humanities and Arts Schools.
“The information contained therein is false. Ignore the unwanted insinuations,” the Ministry of Education commented.
The Ministry clarified the reports after concerned Kenyans questioned the credibility of the information which sparked uproar on social media.
To make the fake information more convincing to readers, it utilised a popular media outlet's logo, thus raising curiosity among social media users.
On April 25 this year, Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang announced that the government would soon do away with the national categorisation of schools.
Kipsang, who spoke during the Innagural Annual Symposium on Competency-Based Assessment, stated that the ministry would scrap off categorisation of schools as national, extra-county, county and sub-county.
According to the PS, senior schools would be identified on the combination of subjects offered in the institution and the categorisation would mainly be based on the infrastructural capability of an institution.
Since national schools have better infrastructure, they would offer STEM subjects while the sub-county was poised to offer a combination of subjects.
