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    "content": "The role of this Committee majorly is that of postmortem. We act as morticians in this House. It is about time that we think about how to go about these audit reports so that within the life of that audit year, we are able to act and give recommendations that can take us forward. Moving forward Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am happy with the reports that are coming from this Committee that is led by our very able Chairman, Hon. Wangwe, who was a Whip in this House. On the issue of Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), I had a keen look at it because I have one that is among the 66 that have been mentioned. It is a satellite campus. The fact that they were able to see through especially in terms of quality of training, tells you that these Members really did some very good job. They were able to see the ratio of lecturers to students. The number of students in our Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) campuses as per the records here is about 34,918. The number of lecturers that we have is just about 542. So, in terms of ratio, you can see that for every 65 students, they have one lecturer. The recommended international standard is one lecturer to take on 10 students only. So, as much as we may be talking about so many colleges that we have, are we really getting value in terms of training? That is the investment that many parents are putting into their children by the time they are graduating. Are they graduating with value, having qualified or they are half-baked? That is because I do not understand how it is that one lecturer is able to really take care of 65 students who are doing some medical-related courses."
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