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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you will appreciate, that 2126 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES June 28, 2007 supplementary question is outside this particular Question. The hon. Member is asking about colleges, which are set up by organisations that are completely independent of the Government. It is private entrepreneurs who are doing this. I am concerned like every other Kenyan, about the fact that there are many institutions of poor quality that are coming up all over the place. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one way of ensuring that standards are maintained, although this is not a question for the Ministry of Education, we do not support those kind of institutions. We have a responsibility as parents to ask what kind of institutions we are sending our children to. The first thing we should do is to check the quality of the institution. A lot of us are not doing that. So, we let unscrupulous business people set up institutions all over the place, including private secondary schools and universities. It is going to be very difficult for the Government to control that; or specifically the Ministry of Education. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we have suggested, though, is that we need to set up a co-ordinating unit, that would be an umbrella body for all the Ministries that have institutions that conduct some training in the country. If we can have such a co-ordinating unit that would be some kind of a clearing house, then it would be possible for us to check the standards of any new institutions that are being started, irrespective of which Ministry they would fall under."
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