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    "id": 1275295,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1275295/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. As the Senator for Bomet has said, we have so far employed 38,000 teachers and are yet to employ another 20,000 this year, which will make 58,000 in total. The Kenya Kwanza administration committed that progressively we will go to more than 100,000. I am sure that in the next financial year, we will be able to do better in this area. One of the challenges we have countrywide is the shortage of teachers. The next question was on a home grown solution, but on this issue, in Kenya and in other areas, we have had problems with teachers being employed and moving out. We have recommendations as contained in the Presidential Working Party Report changing the entry grade. We are now getting into the implementation of that report. One such problem that we have had is that teachers and our 32 teachers training colleges and the three diploma training colleges were not attracting students. The capacity we have is 17 percent and you can imagine the amount of capacity we have. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, moving forward, we think the problem might be in the entry grade and clusters and we are working on that, such that children from those other areas can train as teachers. Moving forward, this will be able to give some kind of a permanent solution. I will cover the other part of the question, which is on home grown solution, in the next question. On school-based assessment, the tool of assessment is standardized. There are disparities and we cannot say there are no disparities from one school to another. Generally, our fears were done away with because initially, we wondered whether it can be objective or if the criteria of the assessment was going to be subjective. This is something we have tested and have seen the kind of format, system and what was done. There were individual tests and sometimes, engaging into groups, practicals, engagement from teachers and other stakeholders like parents and the overall final assessment that we got in the 2022 class because that was a major area of focus and discussion. It gave us the result that this is a workable system. For those Senators who have travelled, they know that it is not only applicable here, but it is in other countries who are"
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