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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us put these institutions where they belong and budget for them accordingly, and make life easier for the Minister for Education and his staff. For example, when we are given bursaries for students and we are told that these bursaries should also go to people in tertiary institutions, we have to get data from the Ministry of Education. Then we realise that the polytechnics are under the Ministry of State for Youth Affairs. When you go to the Ministry of State for Youth Affairs, it was just created the other July 18, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2627 day, and so they do not know where their data is. They are still constructing it, yet the Ministry of Education, which is an old Ministry, has this information. So, why do you have to create this funny Ministries to give sinecures to the boys and the girls? They are just a burden to the Budget. They make learning very complicated. They drain the energies of civil servants, who have to switch their brains from one Ministry to the other. They create too many bosses. I think we would make life very easy for the Ministry of Education if all educational institutions came under that Ministry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is also important that we invest in tertiary education. In Germany, for example, it is known that not everybody goes to the university. In fact, the majority of people from high schools go to polytechnics and get tertiary education. That is why the German industry is so successful, because you get these people when they are fresh and sharp and you train them. They can still continue in the evenings to take lessons, university classes and get their undergraduate degrees. However, they do that because they already have a profession and they are already living their lives. Life is not a dress rehearsal! We live it here and now. To postpone life for other people, because we have not made up our minds where our students should go when they leave Form IV, is very cruel. I would, therefore, expect that, as we plan for the future, I hear there is something called \"Vision 2030\", which is only a vision in the Government and not in the rest of the society. That Vision, I hope, should include some of these things. It should also consult some of us to make sure that the vision is complete, otherwise it will be myopic, and will only reflect the confused vision of how the Cabinet is organised that is reflected in that Government. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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