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    "id": 187103,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/187103/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwatela",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 103,
        "legal_name": "Andrew Calist Mwatela",
        "slug": "andrew-mwatela"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry provides training to Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers through a two year in-service diploma and certificate course. The objective is to equip the ECD teachers, trainers and other personnel with the relevant skills, knowledge, communication and managerial capacities and foster a right attitudes towards the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Education. The Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) has also developed curriculum for both in- service and pre-service mode. The curriculum is also being followed in private colleges registered to offer ECD Education training. Through this programme, the number of trained ECD teachers has increased from 44 per cent in 2000 to 54 per cent in 2008. This is attributed to the increase in number of fully fledged District Education Centres for Early Childhood Education (DICECEs) from 31 to 35 and the introduction of the ECD diploma course in 2007, as well as the increased number of private ECD teachers training colleges. A National Early Childhood Development Policy framework and Service Standards Guidelines have been developed and launched in February, 2007, which, among others, is helping to streamline the training programme. (b) There is no scheme of service for ECD teachers at the moment. They are hired by parents and local communities. However, the Ministry is in the process of developing a national scheme of service for these teachers in readiness for mainstreaming 4-5 years old children into primary circle by 2010. (c) The ECD statistics in Limuru Constituency is as follows:- Number of ECD teachers 382 Number of ECD centres 159 Enrolment in the Centres 6923"
}