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    "id": 1494258,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "Another issue is under-staffing in the TVET institutions. Under this, and you will bear me witness, the Ministry of Education is not serious. It not addressing the challenges in the education sector the way they are supposed to be addressed. Start even from primary schools with the new Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). It is falling apart. Go to TVETs, they do not have teachers and yet, the Government is not taking any steps to address that. Talk about university education and funding. It is now in shambles. Hon. Temporary Speaker, Members of Parliament interact at the grassroots level with parents. They will bear me witness that parents are suffering more than any other time in the history of education in this country. Even when Kenya was going to the dogs; Kenya was in the red and when Kenya had crossed the Rubicon during President Moi’s time, we never experienced non-conformity with admission to universities like now. Students are at home. They introduced something called a module. Module Z, Y or whichever it is, is not understood by a poor guy from the village. He cannot. You tell him to raise Ksh500,000 and yet, that man has never seen Ksh1,000 in his life. My neighbour who is called Marima Pesa has children at home. He does not know what to do with his children. Every time I go home he tells me: “ Mheshimiwa nisaidie . Watoto ni wa university .” Five children with Ksh400,000 for each, that is Ksh2 million. That man has never seen that kind of money. We must come up and ensure that we help those institutions. Otherwise, they are going to collapse. The Committee observed that TVETs are facing an acute shortage of both teaching and non-teaching staff. The ideal trainer to trainee ratio as recommended by the World Bank is 1:25, while the Ministry of Education recommends a ratio of 1:30. Unfortunately, in certain instances, the ratio in some courses has reached as high as 1:130. That situation significantly impacts the quality of education and training that is offered to the students."
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