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    "id": 662271,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/662271/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1955,
        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "This Bill seeks to ensure that ranking is done at the national level. If it has to be done at the national level, then it is important for the categories of ranking to be very clear. We should rank schools which belong to the same category after doing a bit of analysis to make sure that these schools have the same infrastructural development, the same staffing levels and the same science laboratories. Some schools just hear of science laboratories. I want to appreciate what the NGCDF is doing in terms of assisting schools to build science laboratories. It is going to be unfair when you want to rank a school which has a science laboratory with a school which does not have one. Automatically, the basics are not the same. The whole essence of ranking is to make sure that evaluation is done properly. Evaluation encourages competition. If I know that school “A” performs well and I am the head teacher of another school in the same category which does not perform, I will work hard to achieve the level of performance of the other school as long as similar facilities are there. Competition is good because it improves efficiency and effectiveness. It is important that we encourage competition, but ranking must be done based on the right framework. I want to challenge the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to develop the framework, so that ranking is seen to be fair. As I conclude, this country spends a lot of resources on the education sector. With the kind of resources we are pumping into the education sector, it is important for us to improve the quality of our education. One of the things that are going to help us is to rank our schools, so that they can compete and our students can get the best education. This will enable students to access the best courses at the university to assist us to achieve the Vision 2030 targets. Otherwise, we will just be talking about the education sector, pump resources and nothing comes out of it. I support the Bill, but it is important for us to have a detailed framework for ranking."
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