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    "content": ", is your baby a boy or girl?” They directed me to one corner of the store and said: “These are the play items for the boys.” Another parent who came after me was directed to another part of the store and told: “These are the play items for girls.” There were dolls, sufurias, spoons, napkins and all that. I was surprised that even when you go to buy playing items for your child, you are encouraged to buy for the boys technical play items, thereby, introducing them to technical ideas and for the girls, just dolls and napkins. Then, when they reach Form Four, we start complaining that most girls are not going for science and technical subjects. We have to encourage uniform play items for both girls and boys, especially in pre-primary stage. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also need special secondary schools alongside the regular ones that will then help those who are transiting, with special skills and interests, to be enrolled in special schools, where their various unique skills will be concentrated on and sharpened. We also need middle level colleges, especially technical ones. This is because, of late, middle level colleges have been taken over by universities as constituent colleges. That is a bad trend. We need to reintroduce our technical colleges and make sure that they remain operational as such. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also need attachment programmes in companies. All companies must be compelled to create opportunities for those who are doing technical subjects and take them on attachment. It should not be that only those who have parents with connections get attachment in certain companies. It must be a policy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other thing that we need to do to ensure that this policy is sustained is to encourage in-service programmes after graduation and even employment. We have people who really excelled as mechanical and electrical engineers, but whose ideas in whatever field they graduated in are now stale. They do not have time to go back to school to learn new technology. So, it must be a policy that even the doctors, teachers and those who are in technical institutions must go for in-service training. In fact, all people should from time to time go back for in-service programmes. That is where peers come together and interrogate new technology and systems that were not there by the time they were graduating. They exchange ideas and upgrade their information and skills. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also need to remunerate well these people who have gone through this kind of training. It does not add value for us to spend so much time and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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