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"speaker_name": "Hon. Machogu",
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"content": "secondary schools is quite adequate. So, they will accommodate all our needs as far as infrastructural development is concerned. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you can also confirm that this since 2022, this administration has put in place good arrangements for teacher recruitment. Up to now, we have recruited 56,750 teachers right from primary, junior, all the way to senior school. In order for us to prepare these teachers to be properly equipped in matters of junior and senior school, we have undertaken lecturing in areas of pedagogy. We have also worked on the curriculum not only for primary and junior schools, but the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and have made the necessary preparations, such that when we come to 2026, we can have the curriculum in place. As rightly said, we shall have three pathways. One is Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), the other one is Social Sciences-commonly known as humanities, and the other one is Performing Arts, Music and Athletics. This will be just like the years we went to school. After Form Four, we had Form Five and Form Six. If you were good in sciences or wanted to take a line in sciences, you were free to do so. We want to nurture talent. Not all of us can be talented in sciences or humanities. Some of us are good in athletics and performing arts and we want to develop and nurture talent, which has been identified. We are coming up with a plan. We have come up with a Sessional paper, which will be discussed in Parliament plus the many amendments we have come up with emanating from the recommendations made by the presidential working party. It will have specific answers. There might be areas where we shall have pure STEM and in others a rolling mixture of schools undertaking humanities and pure sciences. However, I do not want to preempt that particular debate because I know the Sessional Paper 1 will be discussed in Parliament and we will agree on which way to go. Concerning capitation, I think there was a Question from the Hon. Senator for Kakamega County. In that particular Question, I have indicated specifically where we are as far as matters capitation are concerned. I also want to confirm that, of course, the Government is committed to this. These are issues that are enshrined in the Constitution. We cannot run away from Article 53(1) (b). In the basic primary and secondary, we shall continue giving capitation. Of course, the amounts supposed to be given in primary is Ksh1,420 per learner. In Junior School, we are supposed to give Kshs15,040 per learner per year and in Senior School, we are supposed to give Kshs22,240. However, for the past six years, because of the reduced allocations--- From FY 2017/2018 the amount given was not exactly Kshs22,000, but Kshs21,000. Progressively as years have moved on, last Financial Year the amount we gave was Kshs17,000 per learner. We are having discussions with the National Treasury on this. The Cabinet has directed accordingly because the allocation to education is based on numbers of students at whatever level. It is based on this that we get an allocation. We are putting up a good case. Once the National Treasury and Parliament allocate adequate resources, we will restore the figures as given in 2018 at Kshs22,000"
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