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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi Hills, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Bernard Kitur",
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    "content": "day we are doing an experiment on the children of this country. That should not be the case. If we are changing an education system, it has to be well organised. There must be a proper consultation with all the actors in the sector. But what happened at that time is that many people including Hon. Sossion suffered big time. When they realised that there would be need for classrooms in schools, the Government at some point gave Ksh9 billion for the building of the 10,000 classrooms. That is something that was not well structured and planned. At the same time, they did not plan for laboratories, workshops and dormitories. What pains me the most now is that some of the junior secondary schools that the children are going to were consolidated. Our desire in the past was to have primary schools close to where children come from. Right now, some students are forced to walk up to 10 kilometres to their schools and that is taking us back to where we came from. Hon. Temporary Speaker, another critical issue is human resource. As we speak, most of the teachers are not well trained on this particular programme. Initially, the British Council ran the programme. Thereafter, there were Trainers of Teachers (ToTs) that had been trained to train the teachers. These ToTs as they were doing their training would say they do not understand most of the things that they were being taught. There was speed in doing the training. Those passing knowledge of the junior secondary to the pupils are not well trained. This is very critical. How can we get fully baked students when their teachers are not well baked? It is even worse to see two teachers handling a class of over 100 students. Worse off still, there is no curriculum design or curriculum that is well structured. It is even worse that in most schools across the country you will find that only books for one subject out of the 13 subjects taught have been delivered. Part of the things that they were talking about concerning 8-4-4 is that the system was burdening students with a lot of subjects only to come and realise that CBC has 23 electable subjects and 13 are to be chosen. Essentially, there is a lot of confusion in the running of this programme. We are not sure of what will happen when we are done with the junior secondary. They say we will proceed to the senior secondary. It is not clear to any Member here, any leader or to anybody what happens thereafter. Even the university lecturers have not been trained on this…."
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