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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "terminology - vocational training centres. Back then we referred them as village polytechnics. I celebrate that fact, first of all, just to give decency. Even if for nothing else, just to have a better public relation of these particular centres, so that somebody can proudly come to the Senate and say, “while you may be proud to have gone to such and such university, I am a proud graduate of Kapchebet Vocational Training Centre - Kapchebet is the name of my village - where I learnt a particular trade and that is what I have excelled in. I paid my money, and I have lived a decent life out of it.” That is what we want out of this Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is also important that in this Bill, county governments have now been granted the role to set that which they intended at that particular time. We felt that there was no proper guidance to our county governments on what they were setting up in all these vocational training centres. The proposal to allow a county be specific in the courses and trainings that they are offering in these vocational training centres is brilliant. Part of the reasons many countries have moved and leapfrogged Kenya in terms of their industrialization process, is that they do not seek to ape other developed countries. They excel in that which they are good at and that is a good foundation. We want to ensure that if you are a county that is blessed in a particular trade, that is what you set your vocational training centres to be about. This is so that your young people can have the opportunity to be able to excel in whatever trade they are good in. If you live close by to the lake, like Sen. Kajwang’, then, you will set up vocational training centres that are related to the economic activity of that region. It does not make sense whatsoever to learn other trades for which you know you will never even have the opportunity to ply your trade and make a good living out of it. The same applies to all of us. Each village and county has for good reason areas where they are specific and good about it. I appreciate also that there is a proposal that will make sure that these centres are professionally managed and issues of governance are addressed. I like the fact that on year in, year out basis, before these House and other instruments of accountability, they will file their governance report. We shall be able to see the number of students they have, the fees they pay, how that has been utilized, what development is going on in that particular institution and that will help us. I like also the nexus that has been created between the education training TVETs and the Vocational Training Centres (VTCs). Vocational Training Centres are the breeding ground that feeds into the TVETs and the national polytechnics. If we left it as it was, then, there was no clear career path for those who are beginning trainings in this trade, to know where they are headed. However, given the nexus that has been created in this Bill, it is one of the best well-thought-out Bills that I have seen come before this House this term. There is even the use of technology. If you further read down the line, you will find that there is a linkage between the TVETs management information system and the Kenya Labour Management Information System."
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