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    "content": "like they would have done were they literate. So, it is important to have adult education systems in place. For a long time, the adult education teachers, like the ones I see in my county, are school dropouts. These are primary and secondary school leavers. They are the ones who are assigned that job and the department has been displaced for a long time. This department has been under social services and that shows how important we regard adult education. I think this department has now been brought back to the mainstream Ministry of Education and from there, policies should be developed. There must be training for teachers and I support the Motion because of that. The importance of adult education is captured in the Vision 2030. The Vision 2030 shows that by the year 2030, we should have increased the adult education literacy from 61.5 per cent to 80 per cent. As we approach 2030, we do not seem to have anything in place to move in that direction. Statistics show that in the area I come from, 80 per cent of the adults are illiterate. There is a lot of work which should be done. We know the benefits of improving the literacy levels of a region. People become more informed and they do not have to change their way of life. If they are pastoralists, they still learn to do what they are used to doing in a better way. They get to know how to take the animals to the market and how to contact the veterinary department. Right now, we have many problems. We have herders in the bush and the area has no mobile telephone networks. If something happened, they cannot even use the mobile phone to call security agents while they could have saved lives and properties. However, how would they call? I normally ask the people at home how they manage to call and they tell me that they save some images against somebody’s number after you have called them. So, next time, when they want to call you, they just scroll for the lion. People have to go out of their way to see how to adapt to this technology. However, if adult education literacy was there, they would have been saved that problem. The teachers should be trained in a special way. They should not just be trained as school teachers who just wait in a classroom to teach whoever comes to class. The teacher should know when these people are free and where he can get them. He can even get them under a tree or in their village. You do not have to teach them from the classroom. The system should be adopted. There is a need to have policies for training and recruitment of adult education teachers. The issue of remuneration is also a factor of motivation. If the teachers are not motivated, they will have the knowledge but they will not be productive since they would have to search for other means of livelihoods if the jobs are paying well. Right now, according to the survey, about 25,000 adult education teachers need to be employed so as to cover the population and enable this country attain the Vision 2030 target of 80 per cent. We have to plan for that. We should not expect to train 25,000 teachers and employ them when we do not have that budgetary provision. The Government, through the Ministry of Education, should show seriousness towards this sector by having budgetary provisions for adult education training. They should also have ways and means of 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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