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    "id": 516937,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Bishop) R. Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mutemi Mutua",
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    "content": "how inefficient they are. We have seen schools change head teachers. Schools that were not performing begin to perform immediately because performance has always been a governance issue. Therefore, when we talk about ranking, we talk about an indicator that points to us that there is a problem which needs attention. Why do we want to kill the indicator that is so important in the management of our education? Ranking is the way to go for this country to deal with issues of inefficiency and deal with deadwoods and inequitable allocation of resources. If we kill it, we will be killing our education system. Let the schools that are already established remain established and those which are not established remain that way. Ranking is a sure way of maintaining the status quo. We do not want the status quo to remain. We would like to see that those schools which are under trees become schools in classrooms. Even if we are going to have conditional grants given to such constituencies for purposes of such schools, let that be but we cannot say that because we are not equal, we are not going to compete or that one will be better than the other. Schools should compete and if one is better than the other, we will analyse to understand why and take affirmative action aimed at helping the school that has performed poorly to improve its performance. Ranking in schools, therefore, is not negotiable. Ranking in schools must continue until all the schools are endowed with adequate resources to enable students compete comfortably. Even though we stopped ranking, students go to the same high schools and universities. Where do you take those who do not perform well, unless you are going to create second class universities? Therefore, some regions will not have graduates. We will then start saying that you must have a degree for a certain job, yet there is a region whose schools are poorly endowed with resources and, therefore, nobody qualifies for university admission. We cannot afford to marginalise some regions through the education system; that is unfair. We must rank schools and take appropriate action."
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