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    "content": "fact, the private school in most cases is managed by the owner of the school. So, how do you bring somebody and lord onto that institution. We have private Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs) managed by individuals. Another function is to coordinate adult, continuing education programmes and so on. I can see the light. Does it mean I have five or ten minutes? Fine, I have five minutes. I will quickly go to Clause 25(d): The members of the sub county education board shall be paid such allowances and disbursements for expenses as may be approved by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). As you can see, we are creating eating chiefs. This money can do something better. Clause 6 states that pursuant to Article 235 and 237 of the Constitution, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) shall assign teachers to the public institutions of basic education and training used for conducting pre-primary education, child care facilities, home craft centres and village polytechnics. This is restating the Constitution. What happens if they do not? When you create an obligation, you also create sanctions if that obligation is not met. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know where you come from, but being from Jubilee areas, I am sure you are favoured than us. I have schools in my county with 1,000 children - considering the level of procreation among the Luhya Nation – it has two TSC teachers. So, to say that the TSC will provide teachers without a sanction if they do not supply is rhetorical. We must have an obligation that TSC will make sure that each school has teachers commensurate with its establishment so that children can enjoy. There is no point saying that we have universal education if we have not teachers. Then we have Clause 27: To participate and offer proposal matters regarding syllabus, text books, digital content and other institutional materials and teaching aids. There is a full department at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). If these boards will do this, what will the KICD do? It has done a very good job. The only thing I have never agreed with although I live with it, is when they veered off to create 8- 4-4, then when Kenyans got used to it and said it is working - my children and many others have gone through it and have come out very well - then the new Cabinet Secretary comes and just to appear to be a reformist, regardless of what he is doing, he says that he is abolishing 8-4-4. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I even talked to him. As a professor, I would like you to talk to him. If we really want to change our education system, then let us align our education system with East African Region where we belong. Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi have education up to Form Four, Form Five and Form Six then university. This is so because our job market is primarily in this region. Why do we want to create a mongrel that Dr. Matiang’i is trying to create? I do not hear anybody speaking against this yet we have very clever people with critical minds in Jubilee like the Senate Majority Leader here. Sen. Karaba, the Chairperson of the Committee on Education is just happy answering questions here whose answers are drafted elsewhere. They are not thinking outside the box. Nobody has put Dr. Matiang’i to task. At least, I salute the National Assembly. I have heard them speak. In fact, when he said there would be no ranking of schools, my party, FORD Kenya through hon. Chris Wamalwa took a Motion to the 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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