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    "content": "education and it is upon each one of us to ensure that all children across the country access education and not have any impediments to their education. Madam Temporary Speaker, as a House, it is also important for us to have the same persistence and commitment that Sen. Musila has had. We need to follow up and make sure that this law works. It will not be business as usual; just passing Motions and Bills in this House. Whatever we pass here should be implemented on the ground. I hope our media will make sure that every school and everybody knows that this Bill has been passed. Come next year, the certificates that are being held should be released immediately. They should be handed over to the District Education Officers (DEOs), so that the students can access them. There is also a very pertinent issue under Section 45(6) (a). It is something that one might look at and dismiss, but it is something that I have experienced with two students, one of which is from my county. The media had to bring out this issue for it to be resolved. The affected student had lost a whole year. I am happy and proud that now she is in a teachers training college, but time wasted can never be recovered for any child. Time is going, not mentioning the frustration that parents and young people go through. The section states that a candidate who indentifies a discrepancy in the certificate issued shall notify the council of such discrepancy within 30 days of the release of the result. It should go further to give a timeline of when it should be resolved. I know a student who went back to notify the council because her certificate had the name of a boy. It took so long to resolve the issue. Apart from putting it to the parents and the teachers that they should notify the council, we should also stipulate the time when the council should resolve this issues, so that the affected students can continue with their education or other areas of life. Madam Temporary Speaker, I cannot finish without talking about the issue of exam cheating. This issue is a shame to our country. We do not know what to believe or where to start. We are doing a disservice to our children. Some of the children who really excel and are admitted through the KUCCPS to study Medicine or Engineering will get frustrated in universities. They will have excelled through cheating. They will end up dropping out of universities. What kind of people are we churning out? It is unfortunate that we are not seeing investigations going on despite the rampant allegations that have been going on about examination cheating. No one is even taking responsibility for it. What are we doing to our children? We do not want to be told: “So many students got Ys in the examination results.” We need to get to the bottom of it and not engage in blame game between the KNEC and the Ministry of Education. That is neither here nor there. We need to put this matter to rest. We are now diverting the attention to say that we will have digital tests using computers. When will the children in Samburu or Turkana get computers to do these things? Before we get there, can we sort out the issues that we are having right now regarding examinations cheating? How are the institutions which offer scholarships to children from poor families who excel perceive us, when every day in the media they read about irregularities in examinations? They will think twice before offering scholarships to Kenyans to study in 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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