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    "id": 169463,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the principals will also be retrained on proper management of schools, because many of them are not performing well in regard to management. The Ministry will ensure that all the institutional managers are properly trained to manage schools. We shall strengthen the guidance and counselling at the national, provincial, district and schools level in order to provide adequate skills for handling of learners in schools. The Ministry will undertake all that. One of the major problems which we had in schools was the issue of Mock examinations. Actually, teachers were involved. It was business. People would set examinations for commercial reasons. They would be taken at district and sometimes divisional level. There was also false information moving around that Mock results would be used in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) grading. That was wrong information, accompanied with the fact that some teachers were not performing. By the time Mock examinations were being taken, you would find a large variation among schools in terms of covering of the curriculum. So, if there is one school that had not done enough and another one had covered quite a bit and you put them together in the Mock examinations, the latter would perform better because it has done much more than the other one. This means that some schools would perform poorly as compared to others. So, that is one of the factors that led to unrest in schools. If that was so, then students were actually justified. If in your school, you have covered maybe only two-thirds of the curriculum while another school has covered it fully and then you are examined together and there is a rumour that the results would be used to gauge the performance in the national examinations, you would expect resistance from students. So, the Ministry has banned Mock examinations. If any school wants to assess its students, it must be school-based. That is one of the measures that we have taken to solve the problem."
}