Previous Mutual has partnered with the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Growth (KICD) to begin the growth of a monetary literacy on-line orientation course for junior and senior secondary academics.
The course is designed to equip academics with the capability to successfully implement the monetary literacy ideas which can be to be mainstreamed into the curriculum through the studying course of.
Set to be rolled out for piloting in February 2023, creating the monetary literacy coaching course entails writing/scripting, enhancing, designing, creating multimedia parts, piloting, monitoring, and coaching on the agreed platforms.
Its growth comes six months after the 2 establishments accomplished the event of the monetary literacy tips, which outlined how monetary literacy is contextualized and conceptualized from a curriculum perspective. This step was preceded by an evaluation of integrations matrices, an in-depth evaluation of current monetary literacy integration to determine gaps.
The course will likely be rolled out below Previous Mutual’s program Study. Assume. Do – which is a part of the group’s technique to succeed in over 30 million folks throughout Africa to amass monetary literacy abilities that can allow them to attain their monetary objectives. Via the initiative, Previous Mutual has invested Kshs 21 million to help KICD and different companions in creating the monetary literacy mainstreaming matrices, the net orientation course for academics, and tips for schooling sector companions.
Arthur Oginga, Previous Mutual Group CEO, had this to say, “At Previous Mutual, a part of our accountable enterprise ethos is to combine abilities growth and monetary literacy within the work that we do to help the communities the place we function in. This initiative is correct on the coronary heart of our goal to allow Kenyans to amass the mandatory monetary abilities to grow to be economically lively, meet their monetary objectives and drive the event objectives of our nation.”
KICD Chief Government Officer, Prof Charles Ong’ondo, mentioned, “As KICD, our curiosity is to make sure that each learner who goes by means of the Competency-Primarily based Curriculum can display an consciousness of useful resource mobilization, particularly monetary mobilization, and prudent expenditure of that useful resource. We imagine this may result in sound, prudent, and monetary administration amongst our learners and also will trickle to households and communities and beginning a rustic that has decreased debt on the particular person stage, group, company and the nationwide stage”.
As soon as full, the course will likely be rolled out to not less than 100 academics for a pilot part in 5 counties. Bodily monitoring of pilot will likely be carried out to supply academics skilled help. This goals to determine gaps, make the mandatory modifications, and later roll out throughout the nation to all academics for nationwide implementation.
Among the many key areas coated within the course embrace self-exploration abilities that unpack self-awareness, private values, downside fixing, essential considering and resolution making abilities and abilities and skills, sources that unpack the power to investigate monetary sources, entrepreneurial abilities that unpack actions that one can do to generate extra income and monetary abilities which cowl income and expenditure, monetary providers and debt administration abilities and ICT in monetary transactions that unpack, cell cash transactions, on-line financial institution transactions and e-commerce amongst others.