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"speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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"content": "between the two levels of government. After the 2010 Constitution, we have our two levels of government, namely, the county government and the national Government. This Paper is supposed to align education on the two levels, where the national Government only looks at the policy for the ECD, village polytechnics and early learning centres. The development of the Sessional Paper was informed by the recommendation of the report of the taskforce on realignment of the education sector to the Constitution of Kenya and the taskforce on alignment of higher education, science and technology to the Constitution. We all know that after the Constitution of 2010, the education system has relied on earlier sessional papers and taskforce reports. The purpose of this Sessional Paper is to realign our education system to the Constitution and more so reform higher education and technical education. In terms of rationale, the policy provides a framework for the adoption of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). Specifically, if adopted, the Sessional Paper will, among others: 1. Provide the basis for addressing challenges in the education sector, some of which are related to completion, equality, relevance and special needs education. As we speak, though the Government has tried a lot in the 100 per cent transition programme, a number of our children have low transition rates. This Sessional Paper looks at how best children in all public schools can complete school. When I talk of completion, I am looking at early learning and basic education, which is from Grade 1 to Grade 12 or from Class One to Form Four, which is a requirement for our country. 2. Provide the basis for developing an education sector strategic plan that will promote comprehensive framework for programme implementation. Today, after the Dagoretti incident, a number of leaders have called for serious soul searching on who is to blame. Before we do that, we have serious strategies and good programmes that have been put in place in the sector, but the implementation part is wanting. How could a structure like that have been put in place yet we have very clear systems in the Ministry on how schools should be registered? Two, how did the Public Works Department approve the structures as fit to hold 800 students? These are the issues we are talking about. Leaders, all the way from lower levels to the highest levels in the country, have been left to lament, which is not good. Action should be taken. All those who are responsible, including the owners and the sector, have to ensure that laws are followed to the letter. 3. Provide the basis within which all providers of education and training services will engage in the sector. How will education services providers, be it in the private or public sector, engage to ensure that the sector is running smoothly? 4. Be a planning and budgeting tool as it will be linked to the medium-term expenditure framework. 5. Facilitate the harmonisation of various policies, Acts, guidelines and legislation. As a Committee, we went through this Sessional Paper several times and Members of the Committee are here. We critiqued the first edition of the Sessional Paper. That is why this is a revised Sessional Paper. We asked the Ministry to go back and relook at it and make sure that the gaps in the policy framework on education are filled. There were a lot of gaps. How was it addressing university education? How was it addressing teacher capacity building? We asked the Ministry to go back and fill those gaps. They went back and addressed the issues we asked, but The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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