{"id":1499374,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1499374/?format=json","text_counter":237,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"to financial constraints and strain on household incomes as families struggle to meet educational expenses not covered by bursaries; acknowledging that the implementation of community-based bursary scheme has not fully achieved its intended objective hence the need to re-evaluate the current bursary systems with a view to ensure equitable and free access to quality education for all students; cognizant that the duty of the government to provide free basic education can best be achieved by consolidating education funds and directly remitting to public schools; now therefore, this House urges that the government, through the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, undertakes a comprehensive overhaul of the education bursary system with a view to collapse all bursary schemes and allocate the funds to the State Department of Education for provision of free basic education through capitation to be directly remitted to schools."}