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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "the time when we are reconstituting the curriculum boards to be careful to look at our history and look for people who can make this country move forward. That is where I have a problem when we place some of those responsibilities with the CSs. At one time, we have very good, responsible and smart CSs, but they are never permanent in those positions. Next time, we have a different CS and the whole thing changes. That is exactly where the problem is when we give space to CSs for purposes of nominating some of those people. For example, the CS in charge of education is doing very well. Next time, we could have one who looks at things in a completely different way. That is exactly what will happen when we look at those things. That kind of a Cabinet Secretary (CS) who looks at those things in a different way will come up with totally different people who look at things in a very different manner. That is exactly why, in as much as our curriculum is supposed to be the basis of the standards of education in this country, things are not the same and are not looked at similarly at all the time. This extends largely also to universities. I can give a good example of a study that was done at one time and I was involved in it. We looked at those who are training to be secondary school teachers at Kenyatta and Moi universities. We compared the units and course outlines of Kenyatta University in relation to those of Moi University or Egerton University and realised that, we are churning out very different people. Teachers from universities or education training institutes should be able to teach new things such as the Constitution and human rights in schools. But when you look at the curriculum or course units of some of the universities, you realise that those things are totally different. Some do not include some of those fundamental units that they will teach at secondary schools. In as much as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) hardly involves universities, the Commission for Higher Education (CHE) really needs to look into this matter so that those people our universities are churning out will teach certain subjects in certain schools. That way, we will have certain standards that will make sense to the whole country. We should not have a teacher from Egerton University who cannot teach issues to do with the Constitution, while another one from Kenyatta University can do that very well teaching in the same school. They may even be in different schools but the kinds of exams that they are doing are the same. Those are the areas that really need to be looked into as we go through this Statute Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. The strength of this Bill lies in the changes that we are proposing to the Copyright Act."
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