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    "content": "example, the churches would want to have a say in the syllabus that is taught to our children. The churches must have a say in the syllabus that is taught to our children and students in the study of Christian Religious Education. The same applies to Muslim sponsored educational institutions, when it comes to teaching Islamic Religious Education. These are matters where the sponsor should have a role. The other new role for the sponsor is to offer material and financial support to institutions of basic education with regard to infrastructure improvement or any other project to support academic programmes. The sponsor should have a role to support what the Government is doing to provide infrastructure. That is recognized in the Amendment Bill. Clauses 10 and 11 amend Section 39 of the Basic Education Act to compel the National Government to ensure that all children and students who are learning in basic education institutions complete their studies. The Constitution of Kenya adopted in 2010 provides for compulsory basic education and the right to basic education, especially with regard to Article 43 of the Constitution which is part of the Bill of Rights. The basic education is compulsory and for it to be compulsory, it must eventually be free. Madam Temporary Speaker, basic education is defined as that education from early childhood to secondary education. It is in that connection that this Bill is increasingly obligating the Government to ensure that as much as we have free primary education, secondary education should also be subsided with a view to ensuring that every student in secondary school is able to complete their studies so that we can give effect to Article 43 of the Constitution that demands that basic education shall be free. That provision in Article 43 is borrowed from international treaties and conventions which are part of the laws of Kenya. In particular, it is borrowed from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which Kenya ratified on 1st July 1972 and which is now part of the law of Kenya. To give it effect, therefore, Clause 10 and 11 provide that the Government though the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education must take measures to ensure that children who qualified to public secondary schools, but cannot afford to pay fees are supported to complete school. Madam Temporary Speaker, in this connection, the Government and the CS must ensure that they mobilize resources for provision of bursaries for deserving but needy students. In the past, the issue of bursaries and Government support to pay fees for secondary students has been optional. It is now going to be a statutory obligation. Clause 12 has a new subsection which provides that the head of a basic education institution including secondary schools, by the end of every February must submit to the Sub County Education Board which is created under this supplementary Bill, the list of all learners and their performance, including identities of students in secondary schools who are likely to drop out of school in the subsequent year, for lack of fees. Madam Temporary Speaker, the obligation of the Sub County Education Board which is now created here to support the work of the County Education Board will be to vet that list because we have had instances where secondary and primary school managers inflate things and concoct figures. Therefore, the role of the Sub county 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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