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    "id": 1340596,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1340596/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dorothy Muthoni",
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    "content": "like to know the difference between what the TSC is supposed to do vis-`a-vis the Ministry of Education. The work of the TSC is purely management of teachers. That is why we fought for it to be independent. They manage the employment and transfer of teachers. The work of the Ministry of Education is formulation of policy. Capitation directly falls in the Ministry of Education. Therefore, improving quantity and quality of education requires the policy to be addressed. The demand and supply chain is very key here. For the Competency Based Curriculum to be a success, we need provision of more textbooks, classrooms, blocks and trained teachers, so as to ease the supply side constraints of education. Students also need to be fed which is the demand constraint to education. For example, it was established that one of the reasons children do not attend school in Ghana is that their parents cannot afford to pay the levies charged there. If this does not happen, then the nutritional aspect is never taken care of. This is the reason the enrolment in our schools is so constrained. We do not have enough students in class because they cannot meet their basic needs. I support this Motion. Indeed, capitation money need to be increased. However, this does not mean that we eat into the NG-CDF which has its obligation. It is the responsibility of this Government to ensure that this capitation is increased, so that it can cater for the needs of the vulnerable and the less advantaged in society. Therefore, when we seek additional allocation to the education bursary, it is not a favour."
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