Address the gaps in new education curriculum

A glaring omission in the proposed basic education curriculum framework presented to stakeholders for validation last month is the place of media and information literacy.

This is strange given that the curriculum developing agency, KICD, works closely with Unesco, who have dedicated substantial resources and research over the years and recommended that curricula the world over adopt media and information literacy as an inalienable competence for quality existence in the 21st century knowledge societies.