I would like to hear different views on these two systems, and what am really after is not just in academics but what the two systems offer to our children in the long run as a whole!

I am beginning to think my kids would be better off in GCSE schools than in 8-4-4!!

What do you guys think?

@kenya lyrics, am gcse product and local uni graduate with an undergrad,masters and doing my phd with a family and a good job. I worked my ass off in school to get to this level so which part of lazy ass son of bitch applies to me??
@ ric dees I was in 844 in primary and gcse in secondary. The biggest difference I experienced is that in gcse you are exposed to alot of extra curricula. Its not all about the books and I got a couple of friends who were not the top performers but because of their prowess in swimming, golf and cricket, got full scholarships for their uni abroad. The top performers also got scholarships but again abroad because local unis dont provide such (that is a disadvantage of gcse and local unis) Your child can get into public unis but as module 2 and in the private unis without a problem.

Oh yes I forgot about that. The History concentrates on european history during the two world war eras and the geography is divided into physical and human geography but global geography not concentrating on Kenya only, kiswahili is done done but is an option depending on what language one chooses

Are there any reasonably priced schools offering GCSE? Or do all those parents have to pay through the nose?

i think Kenyalyrics you don't know what you are talking about.I maybe obviously biased but from where i work over 90% did GCSE, a couple of us from Africa and Asia did local based exams that said are these guys lazy or all those things you said defenitely not.

Let me throw a curve-ball to this, i think in most GCSE schools you are bound to meet with the families who own/preserve Capital in this country and elsewhere, what does this translate in-terms of networking for your kids in the future? I see it all the time where i work, the lads from Eaton who then went on to Cambridge have an almost inpenetratable outfit by 'outsiders' and this are the same guys when they move on and form their own Hedge fund firms, they in turn get backing by former schoolmates and partner with them as well.

Let me ask what are the chances your kids who went to 8-4-4 will cross paths with say kids who went to St Andrews Turi? What do you think an 8-4-4 educated child will bring to the table and a GCSE educated can't but the converse cannot be said!!

My daughter is almost 4 years she obviously does GCSE, when we are home and she hangs out with kids of my friends and relas of roughly the same age and well the difference is almost as clear as night and day!!

Mukiha, not by a mile but you got to admit it's hugely important to have a support network that you can relie upon however there liesin the difference, our defenitions of support network, you will define what this will be and its meaning!!

@XSK;
I am Kenyan and I live right here in Kenya. I don't know about @Ric dees.

If you go to the opening post of this thread, you will see that Ric asked for opinions in order to make a decision. He wasn't asking for the benefit of "the bigger population": It was for his personal use.

Much the same way we ask about car models, yet "the bigger population" have no option but to walk or take matatus.

And you did not get a scholarship!

Relax! Just messing with you!