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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to contribute to this Motion by Hon. Peter Kaluma on the issue of CBC. First, I agree with him that CBC, as a new curriculum, has a number of teething problems and challenges. It has issues concerning infrastructure and teaching staff. It has a number of issues that are common with every new education system and a new curriculum. However, this is a good curriculum for this country. I laud the officers who went all the way to design the new education system. I know that Kenyans at large and even other people across the world do not always like new systems. I do remember - and Hon. Kaluma knows that very well - that when the 8-4-4 system was started in 1985, Kenyans were up in arms. They were always demanding the Government to revert back to the 7-4-2-3 system. That was as a result of a novelty that was introduced. However, focusing on CBC, I remember that it was in this House in the 12th Parliament, that we passed the Sessional Paper that introduced CBC. It was in this House that Members went through the various curriculum cycle designs that the Ministry of Education officers took the country through. Unlike in the 8-4-4, system where it was introduced at Class Seven, this one has been introduced from PP1 and PP2 through to Grade 6. The designs were done and all the teaching and learning areas have been put in place. The issue of the teaching staff is what is contentious. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I just want to say that, as the Kenya Kwanza Administration, there is a pledge in our Plan that this Government employs 116,000 teachers in five years. This year, we have employed 36,000 teachers and 30,000 of those are for junior secondary schools. Apart from that, the Departmental Committee on Education and Research has implored upon the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to get qualified teachers in primary schools who can teach secondary schools so that they can be posted to junior secondary schools. I also know that there are issues of infrastructure that are common in almost all schools in the country. In view of this, yesterday, our committee met with the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and requested them to factor in infrastructure money in the Budget so that every junior secondary school will have a laboratory. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this is the system of education that is going to make Kenyans equal. It will ensure that we have one school system where a child will start from PP1 through to Grade 9 and to Grade12 in the same school. A few weeks ago, a number of Members here were running up and down trying to place students in elite schools like Alliance High School, Kapsabet Boys, Butere Girls, Kisumu High School and the rest. However, with CBC, all the 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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