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"speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am Hon. Toroitich’s neighbour. We, as the Departmental Committee on Education are more serious than the Member of Parliament. For once, we interrogated. When he says that we did not interrogate, how did he know that yet he did not appear in the meeting? Most SEQIP are not complete including those in Baringo North Constituency. The last statement in the Report says that the Ministry appreciates that there is a problem in this thing because the procurement was done at the Ministry Headquarters without doing site visits. Therefore, the Ministry says that they are adopting a centralised approach of sending the money directly to the schools in Elgeiyo Marakwet and Baringo, so that those projects are completed. A solution has been provided. Instead of taking us around and asking other questions, let him pursue with us and the Ministry so that all the Members, including those of Baringo North and Tinderet, who have SEQIPs which are incomplete, can have them implemented. This is rather than taking us back and not coming for meetings. We are in the same boat, Hon. Toroitich. Even in my Constituency, we have a problem with SEQIP. The Ministry has provided a solution and funds will be availed. Please, instead of writing other messages to this Committee, let us work together to ensure that the Ministry does what it has committed to do in good time. Thank you."
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"content": "In closing, I will allow the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education."
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"speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to add to what my colleague has said. During the interrogation on the issue of SEQIP, we learnt that SEQIP covers 131 constituencies in this country. There was poor workmanship even in the administration of the whole project. We agreed that there was a change of policy in two things. One, that the procurement will never be centralised anymore. Two, that the Ministry and our Committee undertakes a very clear tour and oversight of all the projects that had not been completed. The fact that Hon. Toroitich was absent and he is not aware of this, indicates that 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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"speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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"content": "the Member is completely out of order, and he is not true to his duties as a Member of Parliament. Absenteeism cannot be a case of point here."
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"content": "(Hon. Timothy Kipchumba spoke off the record)"
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"content": "Hon. Members, this is now becoming an altercation between the Member and the Committee. We will move to the next response requested by the Hon. Rashid, Member for Kisauni. Chairperson for the Departmental Committee on Education. Do you have a response? Who is making the Statement? Oh, yes, Member for Kibra."
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"content": "RECOGNITION AND EQUATION OF CERTIFICATES FROM INTERNATIONAL CURRICULA"
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"speaker_name": "Kibra, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Orero",
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"content": " Yes, Mwalimu Orero. I rise to make a response on the request for a Statement on the criteria for recognition and equation of certificates and diplomas obtained from schools offering international curricula in Kenya. This was asked by Hon. Rashid Bedzimba, Member for Kisauni Constituency. The question has three limbs, which we wish to respond as follows. On the reasons for the inordinate delay in formulating guidelines on equation of certificates or diplomas obtained from schools offering international curriculum within the country, Section 10(2)(e) of the Kenya National Examination Council Act, 2012 outlines one of the functions of KNEC as being to equate certificates issued by accredited foreign examining bodies with the qualifications awarded by the Council. Section 48 of the same Act grants the Council the powers to make rules, including rules of the equations of certificates, including prescribing what examinations may be equated by the Council. Pursuant to this provision, the Council enacted the KNEC (Equation of Certificate) Rules 2015 and the Guidelines on Equation of Foreign Certificates (Revised in Edition IV) Annex 1A and 1B. Both the rules and the guidelines provide that the Council shall not equate a certificate for a course offered within Kenya and identical or similar to that offered by the Council. On the basis of these legal provisions, KNEC was not equating certificates or diplomas obtained from schools offering international curriculum in Kenya. The justification based on a range of reasons at that time. Among them the narrow content level in a number of subjects; disparity in subject content in a majority of subjects; difference in administration of examinations; that equation would lead to exodus from the Kenya system; that paper format for the two systems is different; that candidates willingly, choose to do that system despite the choice to do the Kenya education system; and that candidates sit a number of papers in several sittings over a number of years. That is unlike the Kenya system where candidates take all examination papers once. The High Court in the Dennis Kabuaya Mucheke vs Kenya National Examination"
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"content": "Council and two others"
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"content": "case declared this position unconstitutional. The Court found that the foregoing rules and guidelines were unconstitutional for being discriminatory. Following the judgment, the KNEC has been working with various examination bodies to develop a method for equating their certificates. The Kenya Association of International Schools has been coordinating the submission of documents required to develop an equation criteria from the various examination boards operating in Kenya. The development of an equation criterion entails evaluation of the curriculum in question, teaching syllabi, mode of teaching, assessment, and grading and certification in order to ascertain how a given curriculum would compare with the Kenyan education system. This is an exercise undertaken by KNEC subject officers together with the Kenya Institute of 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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