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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": "in universities and TVET institutions. We also have a big amount of money for recruitment of teachers, training teachers for CBC, and supporting implementation of the new curriculum. Recruitment of teachers is very dear to the Kenya Kwanza Government. The intention is to recruit 116,000 teachers in the next five years. That is why the Government is recruiting over 20,000 teachers in this financial year. Again, that is to make sure we reduce teacher shortage in the Republic. We also have the issue of skilling or retooling teachers on CBC. I think you all know that a number of teachers schooled in the old 8-4-4 system. Now there will be need to have many seminars and in-⁠service programmes to retool teachers to support that curriculum. In terms of sources of funding, the sector largely relies on direct Government funding. Over 80 per cent of money in this sector comes from Government funding, with very little foreign funding. There are also some aspects of support from the development partners, especially to TVET. I think you all know that many TVET institutions get a lot of machinery and equipment funding from partners. For instance, we have Chinese concessions or Chinese Government loans. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the proposed allocation to the sector is also well-⁠aligned to the Bottom Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) of the Government. A total of Ksh20.2 billion for BETA programmes has been allocated across the sector. I think this is very clear in terms of trying to uplift low-⁠placed members in the education sector. This has even been seen in the need to promote teachers. The BETA priorities in the education sector are as follows: There is construction of 52 new Technical Training Institutions (TTIs) at a cost of Ksh890 million to provide skills to the youth that form a majority of the public. We require them to get skills so that they can be self-⁠employed. Training of youths on digital skills will cost Ksh120 million. The ICT infrastructure to support competency-⁠based assessment will take Ksh53 million. Construction of Integrated Resource Centres will cost Ksh1.4 billion, and construction of JSS classrooms will take Ksh2 billion. Junior Secondary School learner capitation has been increased to Ksh25 billion. The support for establishment of the Open University of Kenya is at a cost of Ksh170 million. The Open University of Kenya is quite important to enable Kenyans access higher education cheaply even from the comfort of their homes. This intends to promote online or virtual learning systems, therefore, enabling Kenyans access education. As part of our oversight mandate on Budget matters, I point out that the Departmental Committee on Education observed some key issues of concern that require concrete policy direction. The Committee made a number of recommendations. It also noted a number of issues. As an oversight Committee, we asked the Ministry of Education to look into certain policy issues. I thank Members of the Committee for pointing out certain glaring issues in the education sector. One, is the big number of teachers who have stagnated in one job group for a long time. As far as the teaching service is concerned, teachers’ salaries and remuneration take a lot of money. It is more than half the money for the sector. Many teachers have stagnated. We need about Ksh2.2 billion to promote them. You know the importance of having a motivated staff or worker."
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