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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "not adequate. I hope that is also considered so that we do not have boards that just sit there but boards that work and deliver on their mandates. I want to support the Committee in assigning teachers of pre-primary child care and village polytechnics to Teachers Service Commission (TSC). While I agree that it is the role of counties to oversee the management and running of polytechnics, polytechnics are suffering a great deal. In my constituency, for example, instructors have come to see me because they go for many months without salaries or because they are underpaid. You will find that one county pays these instructors Kshs5,000, another one pays them Kshs8,000 and another county pays them Kshs10,000. There is no standardisation and recognition of the level of education of those instructors. Therefore, it is important that they are all paid by the TSC so that they are paid equal salaries and those that have gone for further studies can be promoted and recognised. This will improve on the quality of training that is offered at our village polytechnics. Right now, little is happening in the village polytechnics. I do not think counties take them as priority areas of support. I want to support Clauses 11 and 13 that seek to ensure that every child has a right to education as enshrined in our Constitution. I have a problem when bright students or any child whatsoever who has done the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) reports to a school and is denied admission on the basis that he or she has no school fees. Therefore, I support the idea of every secondary or primary school giving data to the County Education Board or Sub-County Education Board so that we are able to know the bright students who have passed examinations but are unable to pay school fees so that they can continue with their education. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology had a bursary fund which has since died. That fund would assist because the CDF is not able to give all the students the money they deserve to continue with their education. What I know is that currently, many students do not get bursaries. There is no linkage between what the county and the CDF are doing in terms of bursaries. So, there is likelihood that there are students who are either double funded because the county and the CDF give bursaries to the same student. There is need to have that point of convergence where we share this information to ensure that every needy child gets the bursary he or she deserves and that there is no double award of bursaries to students."
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