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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Statement on registration of schools. Yesterday in this House, we talked about the importance of registration of persons with disabilities. For any developmental policy to be implemented conclusively, there must be some understanding of the situation as it exists. How many students exist in these schools? What studies are they doing? What is happening within the schools? Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes back when I was a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, I went to supervise teaching practice. I was shocked at some of the schools where my students were practicing teaching. The quality of schools was compromised. I wondered whether such schools were in existence. When you go to the registry, you will not find these schools. It is very important because from the onset, when registration has been done, then people know, expect and understand what the provisions are. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the Eleventh Parliament, this Senate came up with a very elaborate Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) Bill that did not get signed into an Act, but its process is being revived. One of the provisions that had been put in that Bill concerning ECDE facilities, which fall in the mandate of the Senate and what we are expected to do apart from Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as well---. One of those was to ensure that certain specifications are put in place for specific schools. The ECD classroom was the best classroom model. It had specifications about the size, the stools that students should sit on and the kind of food to be served and so on. The reason for such registration and standardization processes is a way to monitor and evaluate how this sort of schools contribute finally to the quality of education. If you are expecting quality education, standard education across board, you are looking at a system that through its registration can vet the sort of quality that the said institutions will bring on board. 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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