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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the same note, although this is not covered in this report, you will notice that the number of teachers in secondary schools varies from district to district. We have schools in this Republic going up to Form Four, but with only one teacher employed by the TSC. At the end of the examinations, you will hear the Cabinet Secretary for Education clustering all these schools together and announcing the top schools. How do you expect a school with one teacher to compete with schools which are fully staffed? Is this fair? This is happening to schools particularly in the remote areas; that is, areas considered hardship areas. This is where you have this practice. Again, as we all know, it is Government policy to uplift the standards of those areas to come closer to the other parts of the Republic. I am asking the Committee to go further and look at the staffing levels of primary and secondary schools because there are some areas which are overstaffed. They have more teachers than they need while we have others with very few teachers. There was a Government policy to try to equalize or to try to staff all the schools equally with teachers, so that the standard of education can be fairly close in all the districts. I am appealing to the Committee, yes, they have addressed the issue of ICT, early childhood education and polytechnics. However, I would like to recommend that they go further and address the issue of staffing levels in all schools for both primary and secondary in the whole Republic. They should also go further and inquire into details as to why the Ministry of Education is illegally withholding certificates of students who have already finished their examinations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to commend the Committee because they have started something that has been lacking by going around the counties. If they go this way, I am sure we will get very far and even make the House familiar with the issues surrounding education in this Republic. I commend the Committee and support their Report."
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