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    "id": 1111401,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 366,
        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I believe that the Ministry of Education cannot avoid responsibility in setting standards. It is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education to have educational policy and standards. In Regulation 15, it does not specify standards in primary school and above. It is just standards in education. They do not say educational policy in primary schools and above. It just stays educational policy. The time has now come when the Ministry of Education can at least be a regulator in terms of setting the standards of the ECD curriculum, how it should be taught and how it can be synchronized with this CBC programme that has come up. I am not so sure that it has really been tied in properly from primary school. You will start doing your ECD when you are in primary school and maybe what went on before that does not tie in properly. We are making a mistake there and I believe the Ministry of Education when they were preparing this CBC policy, they should also have looked into the issue of what should be taught in pre-primary institutions like the ECD schools. I want to appeal to the Ministry of Education not to wash their hands off this matter but to set standards for all the ECD schools both in terms of what should be taught and also standards of an advisory nature on the type of salaries and remuneration that the county governments should give to the ECD teachers. It is recognized that the county governments are the employers and therefore, they can pay any amount. That is why you are now having these differences in the various counties. However, if there was an advisory body at the Ministerial level which determines the type of salaries that should be paid to ECD teachers, then the county governments can have the discretion to up what has been suggested. I think that would be a solution and a way forward. I thank the Senator for Kericho for having brought this Petition. It is a very important Petition and it should make us realize that we cannot just leave county governments to fully handle ECD but they should be guided in terms of what should be taught. They should be guided in terms of remuneration of the teachers. I thank you."
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