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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562648/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Julius Migos Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": "develop and acquire extra land spaces to ensure that these institutions have enough space for expansion. In reference to Sen. Kavindu Muthama's question, in TVET institutions, the trainees graduate using specific stages. There are courses that take three months. These are skills that somebody gains by just being trained for three months and they are given certificates. Others that take two years. So, we have come up with a curriculum that is specific to the needs of the students. For example, if a student wants to come and just learn masonry, masonry cannot take six months. So, he is trained for three months, gains the masonry skill, he is accredited and given certification for that. He can leave to go and use that skill to gain employment, then come back if he wants to learn something else, whether plastering or he can move on. So, it depends on what course it is. In fact, we have done modularization of courses, where you can come in, study what you require, finish, go and gain employment somewhere else and come back and continue learning. Consequently, we have had to pass, for example, the specific policies, including the recognition of prior learning policy, which requires that if you have been trained outside the informal programme, you can come to an institution, showcase your skill, and you are awarded a certificate in order for you to move to the next stage. So it is staged and programmed depending on the course that one is taking. Thank you."
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