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    "id": 210543,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/210543/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
        "slug": "kilemi-mwiria"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Government has waived secondary school tuition fees with effect from January, 2008, to the tune of Kshs4.3 billion in the whole country. The tuition fees waiver will target all students attending public secondary schools with each student receiving Kshs3,600 per annum. (b) The tuition fees waiver will not interfere with the secondary school bursary scheme. In essence, the tuition fee waiver is a complementary effort to the bursary scheme, so as to realise an affordable secondary education. (c) In recognition of the expected increase in students enrolment due to this waiver, the Ministry of Education has put in place the following recommendations: The expansion of the existing one-stream secondary schools to three-streams with time; given that these secondary schools are cheaper, opening of day streams in selected boarding secondary schools; enhanced teacher recruitment, for example, the 4,000 increase for this year; continued and enhanced financial support to secondary schools with regard to infrastructural development, laboratory equipment support, bursaries to the needy, special grants to Arid and Semi-Arid areas and ICT support in two schools in every district. 2942 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 2, 2007"
}