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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ng’etich",
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        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "will be proposing amendments during the Third Reading that this should be completely removed. One of the reasons why the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has not received the necessary reforms to drive this country to be an industrialized country is because it was placed under 10 ministries. I am seeing a situation here where we are being taken back to that situation. It is going to bring uncoordinated admission of Government-sponsored students (GSSs) into TVET institutions. Deserving students may not get places because they will not be well distributed. It means that, for students in a medical training college (MTC) in Turkana, for example, the students who will apply will come from a certain limited region. So, the creation of KUCCPS was really to coordinate placement of Government-sponsored students. We have seen deserving students getting places. Those are the ones who do not have money to get those chances. That is why it was created. When you now say that it should not do that, I wonder why it was created in the first place. Secondly, when we fragment the TVET institutions, we are, in essence, saying that those who have enrolled in MTC will, of course, fall under the Ministry of Health. Those that will fall in the water sector will fall under another line ministry. So, that will make it so difficult for it to be regulated. I remember Members recently passed a Bill and created an Act of Parliament that is going to regulate that sector. I am wondering how they are going to do it. The TVET Authority was created to centralise the regulation of the curriculum that would be offered and the facilities to ensure that institutions are well-equipped to provide the right courses. Thirdly, when it comes to the implementation of the curriculum, we again created the Kenya National Qualifications Framework, which is supposed to equate various awards of certificates and diplomas. Now, when they fall under different pieces of legislation, it becomes very difficult to have standardised measure and yet the TVET Act created the Centralised Curriculum Development Centre that will look at a generalised curriculum that will be offered in these institutions. Finally, we are still rebranding and sensitising students to willingly join these institutions. The Jubilee Government is establishing technical institutions in every constituency. I am wondering who will place students to these institutions if we are going to leave it to the various line Ministries? We are going to see wasted resources and Kenya will not achieve Vision 2030 that we hope to achieve through producing the right skilled personnel through TVET institutions. We need skilled personnel to drive our industries towards industrialisation of Kenya. While I have no objection to parts of this Bill, I want to strongly say that I will propose that this be dropped at the Committee of the whole House stage because it negates the idea of creating the TVET Authority. It negates the idea of creating KUCCPS. Above that, it is going to make deserving students lose their opportunity to join these institutions. We have seen that when institutions do it on their own, they do not maintain the standards. It is not like universities where they begin admissions from those with A (plain) downwards and maybe stop at grade B. Instead, you find that those with grade B and with the qualifying combination are left out and those with money and have grade C or C- (minus) are given opportunity. It is not good. A good example would be the case of Garissa University. If it is not for KUCCPS, I do not think in the aftermath of the Al Shabaab attack you would find students willingly applying to join Garissa University. The KUCCPS just places students and they automatically have to report there. So, this is not a very good amendment. I want to ask my colleagues to all strongly oppose this because we are going backwards instead of driving this country to the Kenya Vision 2030. For the other amendments, I have no objection. I support the other amendments except that particular one. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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