Publishers blame KICD for late delivery of textbooks

Chairperson Kenya Publishers Association Kiarie Kamau addressing the media the United Kenya Club on January 7, 2025.

Photo credit: Dennis Onsongo | Nation Media Group

Publishers have attributed the delay to deliver new competency-based curriculum (CBC) textbooks to schools to the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), even as they downplayed concerns over shortage of Grade 9 books in the market.

They, through the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA), said that revision and evaluation of textbooks after effecting changes suggested by the KICD had caused a delay in printing and distribution of the books.

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