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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what this Bill is lacking, and I want to urge the Minister to look at it before it comes to the Committee Stage, is that in setting out the powers of the Board, the designers have completely omitted to give the Board the authority to design, continuously improve and manage the curriculum for skills development in the country. If the Authority is going to make any sense and be meaningful to the economy, it must be vested with the authority to develop the curriculum, co-ordinate the teaching of technical skills in our polytechnics, technical training institutes and any other institutes that offer similar training. You have seen that we have a lot of backstreet training colleges fleecing the public. You find that there is an aviation college that has no plane to teach young people how to fly, or even handle a plane. You find a driving school that does not even have a moving vehicle and many others like that. This Board should be vested with the authority, which is lacking in this Bill, to ensure that those who set up training institutes, be they public or private, are controlled, regulated and properly managed, so that we have standardized training in the country and in dealing with skills training in the country."
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