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    "id": 1098146,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "I am happy with that. However, one of the things that we need as Parliament as we make laws is to really look at the relevance, quality and the alignment to the country’s strategies, policies and the development agenda of the country. Towards what end are our institutions aligned; to what strategies are our institutions aligned? Do we have the right institutions? Are the courses that we going to offer relevant? What courses are we going to offer? One of the things that we need to do is that our legislative proposals do they improve the relevance and quality of our youth in this particular case? What have we put in place to ensure that counties are able to play some of the roles you have assigned to them? I am just looking at the roles that were assigned to counties. I was a bit concerned because in order for them to be responsible for staffing of personnel of vocational training and institutions; supervision of vocational education training within the county; if we know what our counties are, will they be able to supervise the good skills level that will be provided at our TIVET institutions and do justice to it? Where will they get that capacity to be able to supervise? Where will they get the capacity to supervise? I think that providing the necessary funds is okay because somebody must implement the policies, strategies and standards developed by the county government for the delivery of vocational education and training and implementation of this Act. Madam Temporary Speaker, perhaps the alignment to the broader national policies, legislative frameworks and regulations, needs to be very clear so that we do not have different standards being implemented and supervised by different counties. Having said that, I congratulate the team. I do not want to speak too much to this. The other issue is the measurement. What will the counties be measuring? Are they going to measure if they taught 1000 students who do not have the requisite skills to do deliver? Have we put provisions in place so that the measurement is not to churn out numbers, but to align to the outcomes we want? For instance, the capacities that we need in the county for the social economic development in the county, the employment of the county youth and such things, become the measure of success in this case."
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