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    "id": 514037,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kobado",
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        "legal_name": "John Owuor Onyango Kobado",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, a total of 2,975 candidates had their results cancelled as a result of cheating. That is what I was saying and the records are there. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, ranking has made students operate like robots in schools. The focus is entirely on completion of the syllabus early enough and then students are drilled to pass exams. This practice should stop if we are to improve the standards of education in our schools. Let us borrow from what they do in other institutions like universities. Before you rank, there is need to come up with a basis for ranking. Schools should meet certain minimum parameters before they are even allowed to present students for exams. They must have proper classrooms, laboratories for practicals and other learning resources. The student to teacher ratio must be appropriate up to a certain level before they are allowed to present students for exams. That way we shall be able to come up with ranking process or procedure. There is need to look at the entire education value chain so that as we rank we do not just rank students based on a single exam. There is need to look at the entire value chain. We consider the continuous assessments. We consider right from, Form One as they come in. What happens in universities? You join the university and you earn your grade right from day one. The process is considered totally so that at the end of the day, what comes out reflects the efforts that a candidate has put into his or her education. But the way it is done at the moment, it is messing up the standards of education in this country. The education sector requires comprehensive reforms. So, we can only pass this thing if it was modified so that it becomes a ranking process that is comprehensive; that considers all those other factors. Given the limitation of time, I beg to oppose this Motion. Thank you."
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