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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The responsibility to coordinate middle-level colleges cuts across a number of Ministries. The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology specifically overseas training in the following medium colleges; 26 technical training institutes, 14 institutes of technology, two national polytechnics, five university colleges and one technical teachers college. The growth pattern over the last ten years in training opportunities especially growth in enrollment in colleges under my Ministry has risen by 25,382 places from 34,453 trainees in the year 2000 to 59,835 in 2010. This is an increase of about 53 percent over the last ten years. The august House needs to be informed that the colleges which have been upgraded recently to offer technical degree programmes still do and will continue to carry on with their mandate to offer middle-level training as provided for in the legal orders establishing individual university colleges in line with Sessional Paper No.1of 2005 on the policy framework of education training and research. (b) As regards to access and especially increasing access for those who aspire to train in Middle-level colleges, the Ministry is involved in a number of strategic activities including but not limited to; (i) Upgrading existing facilities. In the last two years, we have upgraded facilities in existing middle-level colleges under the Ministry. These include facilities taken over by the Ministry upon request by communities and in consultation with relevant Government Ministries. In order to promote equity, expand quality training opportunities and bring technical training services at diploma level closer to the people, we are in the process of upgrading additional eight training institutes across all the provinces to national polytechnics in order to replace upgraded polytechnics and expand opportunities for participation in training at that level. (ii) My Ministry is in the process of establishing one new middle level college per province. This will greatly expand access as indicated earlier. (iii) My Ministry is also engaged in a bursary programme. This year, the Government has allocated Kshs410 million for this bursary allocations to needy students from poor families, orphans, students from arid and semi arid areas, female students pursuing the male dominated science engineering and technology courses and students with special needs such as those living in difficult circumstances in slums. (iv) To enable expand access and opportunity, my Ministry is involved in the process of bringing on board the private sector in the provision of technical training education. My ministry is going to supervise private sector players and those who have been accredited to offer technical training education and a number have already been registered increasing especially since the beginning of the year. It now stands at 998 different colleges."
}