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    "id": 187947,
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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": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Government's policy on the role of private schools in the development of education in the country is stipulated in Sessional Paper No.1 of 2005 on a Policy Framework for Education, Training and Research. In the policy, the Government will do the following:- (i) Work with the partners to mobilise additional resources to finance education and training. (ii) Promote increased private sector financing of educational services. (iii) Remove constraints to private sector participation in education by giving incentives designed to make education more attractive to investors. (b) The support measures the Government is providing to the investors in the private schools in order to improve the standard of education in the country include the following:- (i) Establishing guidelines for registration of education and training institutions to guide officers and bodies charged with this function at all levels in order to ensure that all facilities meet health, environmental, security and quality standards. (ii) In-servicing of teachers by the Ministry during the school holidays to upgrade skills in the delivery of mathematics, science and technology. The Ministry has, therefore, established a regional centre known as Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology in Eastern Africa. (iii) Undertake regular reviews of the various education and training management bodies at 2096 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 24, 2008 all levels of education and training in order to work out modalities for entrenching professionalism to enhance their management and co-ordination capacities. (iv) Provision of curricula and guidelines for the development of curriculum support materials. (v) The examination and certificate services. (c) The Government cannot post at least two TSC teachers to the private schools on permanent and pensionable terms at the expense of the private schools that will pay TSC due to the following reasons:- (i) Due to the high teachers wage bill, it is not possible to sustain deployment or release of teachers to private schools. (ii) The failure by the private schools or the teachers involved to remit the required contribution of 31 per cent and 2 per cent of their basic salary to safeguard the teachers pension upon retirement. (iii) The acute national teacher shortage in the public education institutions will not allow for the release of teachers to private schools. (iv) The rapid establishment of the new schools and increase in student or pupil enrolment has not matched the supply of teachers."
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