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    "id": 1570929,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1570929/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibra, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Orero",
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    "content": " Yes, Mwalimu Orero. I rise to make a response on the request for a Statement on the criteria for recognition and equation of certificates and diplomas obtained from schools offering international curricula in Kenya. This was asked by Hon. Rashid Bedzimba, Member for Kisauni Constituency. The question has three limbs, which we wish to respond as follows. On the reasons for the inordinate delay in formulating guidelines on equation of certificates or diplomas obtained from schools offering international curriculum within the country, Section 10(2)(e) of the Kenya National Examination Council Act, 2012 outlines one of the functions of KNEC as being to equate certificates issued by accredited foreign examining bodies with the qualifications awarded by the Council. Section 48 of the same Act grants the Council the powers to make rules, including rules of the equations of certificates, including prescribing what examinations may be equated by the Council. Pursuant to this provision, the Council enacted the KNEC (Equation of Certificate) Rules 2015 and the Guidelines on Equation of Foreign Certificates (Revised in Edition IV) Annex 1A and 1B. Both the rules and the guidelines provide that the Council shall not equate a certificate for a course offered within Kenya and identical or similar to that offered by the Council. On the basis of these legal provisions, KNEC was not equating certificates or diplomas obtained from schools offering international curriculum in Kenya. The justification based on a range of reasons at that time. Among them the narrow content level in a number of subjects; disparity in subject content in a majority of subjects; difference in administration of examinations; that equation would lead to exodus from the Kenya system; that paper format for the two systems is different; that candidates willingly, choose to do that system despite the choice to do the Kenya education system; and that candidates sit a number of papers in several sittings over a number of years. That is unlike the Kenya system where candidates take all examination papers once. The High Court in the Dennis Kabuaya Mucheke vs Kenya National Examination"
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