According to Dr Geoffrey Wango, a senior education lecturer at the University of Nairobi, the change is long overdue.

“Many people with Bed did not choose the programme because they wanted to be teachers. Many were just enrolled on the course with neither the passion nor the interest to teach. If the BEd is phased out, only those who love teaching will opt to go for the diploma and that makes a lot of sense, and has the potential of creating better and committed teachers,” he says.