{"id":731966,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/731966/?format=json","text_counter":459,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Dawood","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2572,"legal_name":"Abdul Rahim Dawood","slug":"abdul-rahim-dawood"},"content":"school or to further education on the last exam. We should have a system where we depend on continuous assessment of students. It has been mentioned by one of our colleagues that D- (Minus) should not be put into the dustbin. We should see how we can move those people forward. We should not condemn our students who score grade C and below and say that they cannot go to university. Let them go to university, but let us have a proper structured way of taking them forward. If we just do it haphazardly, the people who have worked hard will lose out. We need to get people who have below C + (Plus) to go forward in life as well. The ones who have scored A up to C+ (Plus) should be decorated. To have the Appeals Tribunal in place is a very good idea because it will afford people whose marks have been cancelled a chance to appeal. I believe we should have another system where people who are not satisfied with their marks can have their papers remarked. I took my daughter’s papers for remarking. It is now six months and nobody has even called me from KNEC. I believe we should have---"}