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    "id": 1224076,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "students enroll and pay money, and then the next day, the proprietors disappear. Who ensures that these people can be followed? It cannot be done in Nairobi or by Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Authority. We must give that power to the CECM for Education to be responsible for accreditation, registration, and deregistering institutions. In some counties, vocational training centers can be a source of revenue. This is because in some cases students pay. When they pay, that money is meant to ensure that the capacity of those institutions is boosted and some return is made to the County Treasury. Therefore, this Bill seeks to bring that sanity. If you go through the Bill, you will find that Part I deals with preliminary matters. It comes out with various definitions. One of the most problematic definitions was how to define vocational training and functions that have been assigned to county governments, that is, village polytechnics, home craft centers and how distinct they are from the other institutions that the TVET Authority has been looking at. In the Bill, we are saying that village polytechnics and home craft centers will be those institutions that are offering certificates and below. Anything above the certificate will be regulated and guided by the Technical and Vocational Education Training Act. This Bill also makes provisions for trainees with disability. Clause 7 confers an obligation on county governments to ensure that measures are put in place, including facilities and institutions to cater to the needs of trainees with disability. Part II of the Bill sets out the procedure for the establishment, registration, and accreditation of vocational education and training centers. Clause 8 of the Bill categorizes the vocational and training centers as either public or private. We are aware that private players can also be encouraged to set up these vocational training centers. As I said earlier, in towns like Thika, Kiambu and Nakuru, there is a multiplicity of commercial colleges, vocational education and training centers. As things stand now, the only thing that the county government does to those centers is to issue a single business permit. There is nothing else to do with the quality and regulation of those centers. It also sets out the criteria for registration and circumstances under which registration of a vocational education and training center maybe canceled or revoked. As I said earlier, the CECM, and Finance in a county should not wait for the TVET Authority to crack down on errant village polytechnics and home craft centers. The Bill also outlines procedures to be followed for the sponsorship of public vocational education and training centers by private persons. Religious bodies, more particularly, the Catholic Church, has taken a lead role in many of our counties in setting up vocational education and training centers. We are not saying that the centers they have set up should be owned by the county governments. We are saying that the county government must be given the tools and instruments to oversight them and ensure that whatever they are doing remains aligned to the national objectives on training. The Bill also specifies the process through which a vocational and education center maybe canceled and deregistered. We have attempted to be faithful to the"
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