Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 213361,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/213361/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 148,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kosgey",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 177,
        "legal_name": "Henry Kiprono Kosgey",
        "slug": "henry-kosgey"
    },
    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak in support of this Motion. From the outset, the Minister stated that they are in the business of providing equal July 18, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2619 opportunity to all Kenyan children. That is a commendable phrase. I wish it was so. I hope the Minister will try to make it so. I say that because, as we all know by now, education is a right of every child. In Kenya, we pronounce so many policies to that effect. But in reality, we know what is happening on the ground. The education that we are providing to our children is declining in quality every day. That is simply because there are not enough teachers to teach our children. That point has been known to the Ministry of Education for a long time. If you look at the number of teachers in the country, you will see that, at one time, we had 260,000 teachers. Now, we have 235,000 teachers. But the enrolment, as rightly pointed out by the Minister, has gone from 5 million children to 8 million children. Why has the number of teachers not been increased and yet, we have an increase in enrolment by almost 40 per cent?"
}