Singapore education conference offers lessons for Kenya’s CBE reforms

Singapore has placed early childhood education at the centre of an emerging global debate on artificial intelligence, with education leaders from 18 countries gathering to examine how schools can prepare children for a rapidly changing technological world without sacrificing the human foundations of learning.The discussions carry important lessons for Kenya as it continues implementing Competency-Based Education (CBE), particularly at the Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) level, where the foundations of creativity, communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and social development are established.