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    "content": "manage and sack them if they do not work. In fact, in some schools, I have seen this and encourage it – you find a school has employed a watchman who sacrifices his salary to sleep at the gate day and night for his child to go through that school and get education. If you transfer him to another school, will he move with this child to that school to get the same facility? So are the cooks, grass cutters and lab assistants. In any case, the schools that do not have adequate teachers employ unemployed graduates and high school leavers. How do you now have this amorphous board transferring them from one school to another when their terms are negotiated personal to the person and the school that is employing them? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am sure my colleague across the Floor; the Senate Majority Leader being a former university don sees this point. These things are not workable. We should not even imagine them and put them in the law. I do not know this law. There is also general performance of institutions of basic education and training; to monitor and evaluate general performance of institutions on basic education and training ongoing programmes and projects in public institutions and achievement of learners. The Government has an arm called Quality Assurance and Standards. What is that arm going to do? I will now go to the composition of the Board and you will see how they are ill-prepared to do what we are asking them to do:- (j) To monitor and evaluate – (1) the conduct of national examinations, and institutional based assessments. How can this board monitor and evaluate the conduct of national examinations when we have the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and teachers unions? I honestly do not understand the philosophy behind this law. I hope our Committee on Education headed by Sen. Karaba will be able to look at this. Mr. Temporary speaker, Sir, the other function is:- (k) To coordinate adult and continuing education programmes in the county. Again, we have officers employed by the national Government who can do this. (l) Maintain a databank of all students who are ranked in the first quarter in the constituency in the national examinations at the primary level, and who due to inability to pay school fees, fail to get entry into or complete education in a public secondary school. After compiling this list, what next? A law should not be having no foundation and no end. What is the mischief we are trying to cure? You maintain a databank of students who are ranked good and who cannot go to schools because they have no fees. What do you intend to do with that? If we want to give universal education, which is what they do in other countries, we should, for example, declare like in our manifesto as Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), that universal primary education means that every child going to public school will have free education, free of any payment. They will be provided with uniforms, books and every learning material from nursery to Form Four. 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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