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    "id": 191525,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/191525/?format=api",
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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. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) At the inception of the Department of Adult Education in 1979, Adult Education Officers were recruited from serving officers and teachers working with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and, therefore, used the same scheme of service with the Ministry of Education until 1994. Adult education teachers were recruited in the same year, on temporary terms of service, and placed on equivalent salary scales with the untrained teachers of the TSC. Two schemes of service for both Adult Education Officers and teachers were for the first time developed in 1983 and approved by the Directorate of Personnel Management (DPM) to be effected on 1st January, 1995. However, the officers' scheme of service was implemented while that of the teachers was not implemented until the year 2000. That means that there is a scheme of service which is in place for both the officers and the teachers. (b) It is true that Adult Education teachers stagnated in one job group for many years. The teachers of varying education levels recruited in 1997 were placed on temporary terms of service awaiting professional training and development of the relevant scheme of service. The delay was attributed to frequent movements of the Department to different Ministries. It has been in different Ministries for some time. Eventually, in 2000, the Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development, which was housing the Department at the time, initiated the first set of promotions. Adult Education teachers were subsequently upgraded every three years through the Ministerial Advisory Committee to a 1480 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 1, 2008 maximum level of Job Group \"G\". The promotions were effected in 2000, 2003 and 2006. According to the present scheme of service, the next promotions will be in June, 2009. (c) So far, two schemes of service for both Adult Education Officers and the teachers have been developed and implemented. A revised scheme of service for adult education personnel has since been submitted to the Ministry of State for Public Service for approval. The scheme, once approved, will ensure upward mobility for teachers. They will rise from Assistant Adult Education Teacher III, Job Group \"E\" to Senior Adult Education Teacher, Job Group \"N\". Now that the Department is under my Ministry, we shall study its personnel problems which have, of course, been present over the years, with a view to addressing apparent anomalies. We will look into possible ways of harmonizing adult education teachers' scheme of service with that of Teachers Service Commission (TSC). We will recruit more adult education teachers and also upgrade the Department to a full-fledged directorate, among other things."
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