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    "id": 343764,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Hon. Namwamba raised issues on standards and quality which I want to assure this House that TIVETA that has been established has taken care of that very well. That was noticed by other Members; we want to make sure that the standards in the middle level colleges are as high as what one will get internationally. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to mention that in June, 2012, I travelled to Canada to see the Director for Technical Training on the invitation of the Government of Alberta. We wanted to discuss the possibility of our youth being employed outside this country, particularly in Canada, because we had been informed that that country had a shortage of skilled personnel. The reason is not to reduce the skilled staff, but it is because we are expanding very rapidly. As I mentioned during my opening remarks, as the parent Ministry, we are going to ensure that every county has a technical institution. The future of this country is Vision 2030. Therefore, we must have skilled personnel to deal with industrialization. However, we know that before that time – because some courses are two-year or three-year courses – there will be need to export human resource. So, for that reason, we had to make sure that the standards and the quality within these institutions are high enough to enable us have human resource that can be employed anywhere in the world. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to assure this House that, that is exactly what this Bill is going to do. The Authority is going to be a quality assurance Authority. It will make sure that there will be checks and balances. We are also going to look at the private institutions as their numbers have risen. Private institutions will also be subjected to quality standards by the same Authority. The truth is that we have been closing down institutions. I closed 47 institutions last month. I had closed another 90 institutions earlier in the year. At the beginning of the year, I closed about 100 institutions."
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