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    "content": "It is on that basis that I want to start my contribution by asking the Minister, whose record is known in reforming and transforming, to transform the aspect of technology and education in technology. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is known in this country that if you have technical education, you are considered not worth it. That is why there is clamour for university education. We need to rebrand and relook at the aspect of technical institutes in this country. They should not look like they are for failures. I am a product of a technical institute but I doubt that I am a failure. I am saying this because not all of us were made to go to the university to study law. Not all of us were created to study medicine. There are those of us who are artists by nature. They can, therefore, only find their true calling in a college that teaches them both theory and practical. This is why I would like to ask the Minister to work closely with the Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs. When the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs sets up programmes for polytechnics, I find a disconnect when we have a Minister in charge of technology. Between these two, there must be a synergy to create young people who have space to find jobs in this country. We are now training for Africa. We have become a country that trains for Africa and not Kenya. If this is a deliberate endeavor by this Ministry, then we should really market this as an export commodity. We are exporting our young people who are trained in this country. I know for a fact that we train nurses for Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK). These countries do not bother to train anymore. They wait for us to train and then they take over our trained nurses. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have no problem if this is going to create jobs for Kenyans. However, can it be done in a systematic way? The Ministries should work together so that we train for this country as well as train to create more jobs for young people. It is on that note that I would like to encourage the Ministry to look at new areas of training. I am happy to see the Minister here with her officers. I know it is in the policy making that new levels of training can be looked at. I am looking at the issue of new global discussions of climate change on risk reduction. These are areas that, as a country, I know we can excel if we begin to train our young people on these critical issues. I have been moving around this world talking about climate change. I have become an expert. I am not trained but I have become an expert by simply listening and learning. I know we have the capacity to take over the conversation of climate change in Africa and the world by training more and more people on these delicate subjects that come up and have not been opened up in terms of training in the country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to talk about the new ways to train teachers. I have an interest in this because I am from the background of education in terms of running private schools. Our teachers are still in the archaic ages of teaching students a, b, c, d. If you go to schools in developed countries within Africa, you will find a more holistic approach to training. Some of my colleagues have spoken about the aspect of holistic training. We need to start training our young people about life more than books. Yes, I can be very good at a certain subject, but I do not know who I am and where I am going. I will lose that direction even with the good knowledge in my head. I am asking that our teacher training colleges be improved, modernized and revolutionized. I know the Minister is able to do this because, as I said from the"
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