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    "content": "important issues concerning the status of education in our counties. I want to concur with her that we have such schools in all our counties which are not registered. We have several of them in Kajiado County which are not registered, both primary and secondary. In many other counties, you will still get a situation where there are several schools that are not registered by the Ministry. This will deny these particular students quality education which is a human and basic right. Therefore, the Ministry should make sure that it puts in place measures to ensure that all schools are registered. Mr. Speaker, Sir, registration of schools is also taking a long time. You get a school that has not been registered six years down the line since inception. This will also place a burden on our parents because they have to employ teachers to teach in those schools since the TSC will not deploy registered teachers to teach in such schools. Therefore, parents will be dipping into their pockets to pay the staff, non-teaching staff and also the teachers who are teaching in these schools. At the same time, when a school is not registered, it will not get Government capitation or funding. In this particular case, where we have free education, the Government is putting a lot of money in free education funding. Therefore, these particular schools which are not registered will not get free primary money that is sent by the Government to other schools. When they are not getting Government funding, it means they will not do any development or get enough resources for these students who are in these schools. I want to urge the Ministry of Education to make sure that they put in place a framework to make sure that the process of registering schools is very fast; so that schools do not waste a lot of time in registration. Why does the Ministry allow these schools to undertake normal operations up to Form Three and they are not registered? The Ministry should look at ways of ensuring that any school that is being started, if it does not meet the qualifications of being registered, it should be prevented from operating as a school so that we do not get students who are going to unregistered schools to suffer and get half-baked education as we have heard from my colleague. Another issue concerning registration of schools is the Quality Assurance Directorate in the Ministry. The Directorate of Quality Assurance and Standards should make sure that the schools they allow to be registered meet the requirements. We get some of these schools that have been registered and yet some do not even have enough land for expansion. You find that a school has been allowed to operate on top of a certain building because it has no field. The Ministry should ensure that these registered schools meet the requirements for a school and those ones which have already met the requirements should be registered immediately so that these students can access quality education, like the rest of the students in our country. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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