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    "id": 1439760,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": "people are in training. They should have a supervisor and their work should be clearly cut out so that they are aware of what is expected of them from the beginning. We recently saw the JSS teachers in the streets demonstrating because they felt that the workload at the schools was equivalent to the rest of the teachers who are on permanent and pensionable basis. It is unfortunate that the Teacher Service Commission went ahead to sack them. Who are they sacking? Those are just trainees who are supposed to be called and guided on ethical requirements of a job. Not sacking them! They have not reached that level of being sacked because they are not employees of the Teacher Service Commission. They are just interns. The TSC should withdraw those letters because the interns have agreed to go back to class. They should train them to be better teachers. Both primary and secondary school teachers go for teaching practice and, therefore, the issue of internship is an illegality in its essence because they have already gone through the internship. The TSC should relook at that section of the policy about the teaching practice period and, perhaps, make it longer where they are given some stipend. They should do away with this business of internship. Apart from that, there is a transition after the internship. What next? Do you just conclude that the training is over and now one is competent and then go to wait for employment indefinitely? We should put in place structures so that an institution can take in as many interns as possible and choose who will then transit to the job market. Once one is done with their internship, they are upgraded and allowed to serve as a full-time employee of that institution. The private sector should also be incentivized to support interns who will be absorbed at the end of the process. They contribute to the employment grid in Kenya. It should not just be the issue of public institutions. This Bill must cater for everybody; the requirements for the “dos and do nots” for any intern in any organisation across the board in the entire country so that there is uniformity. There should be a clear policy on how internship is going to be operationalised in its entirety. There should be a provision for the supervision of the interns and a report with one’s performance produced at the end of the process. Those interns should not just disappear at the end of the process without a record of performance. That way, the interns will take the job seriously knowing the consequences of absconding duty or any other illegality they may find themselves in during the programme. I will introduce some amendments to the Bill at the Committee of the whole House. Let me use this chance to just support the Bill and congratulate the Member of Parliament who brought it. I will end my case there so that I can give somebody else an opportunity to contribute. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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