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    "id": 1276788,
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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Report and start by appreciating the wisdom of splitting the PIC into three committees; one looking at the SAGAs under the Ministry of Education. I also take this opportunity to appreciate the work done by this Committee. For a long time, we have never discussed these SAGAs on the floor of the House. We do not seem to recognise how important they are. Look at these institutions; all our efforts in education will amount to nothing if we do not strengthen them. Look at the KICD; it does not matter how much money we put into education if the curriculum development, implementation and monitoring are not properly done. Who can do this other than KICD? Look at the NACOSTI. We are putting much emphasis on STEM and Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). Without the research that NACOSTI is leading in, all these will be of no value. Without harnessing science and technology, we will not go anywhere, even with the new curriculum. Looking at the CLE, Hon. Temporary Speaker, you are a lawyer. Without this Council, we cannot have advocates practising in this country as they should. Look at the TVETs; we are all emphasising the issue of TVETs, and this authority guides us on how to develop and relate them to our industries, yet we have never discussed this here. Look at the CUE. How will we have a university education when we say some universities are dying but never talk about CUE? It never comes before us, and even during the budget, you never hear much about it. Hon. Temporary Speaker, look at the KUCCPS. We are through with the process of placing students in universities and colleges. It has brought out many problems on how to place students in which institutions. This is a fundamental institution. Look at the KNEC. We should support it and ensure that it can do oversight and give credible results. Look at what happened before the Fred Matiang’i and Magoha process. This tells us that many students assumed to have passed with grade As got fake grades. With that realisation, when they streamlined, the number of students who qualified for university education decreased until we had to reduce colleges. That is why we started private colleges, which are now competing because we are getting the correct students for the correct number of colleges. Look at the HELB. We have all been saying that we are spending more money in private universities instead of public universities. This came about because we had fake results from students but the correct number of universities. Now, with adequately tested students, they are fewer. So, there is competition between public and private universities. We have to allocate more money to public universities. These institutions are extremely important. Look at university enterprises like UNES. Universities must be able to take part in some commercial activities as part of their training, and if they cannot do that, we have to support them. I have only mentioned about 10 but they are actually 23. Before the Public Investments Committee (PIC) was divided into three, we never heard about them. Even when vetting people, we never hear their names coming here for vetting. Maybe they come but we do not show interest and yet they are key in our education development and the economy of the country."
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