Beth Mugo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 851 to 860 of 977.

• 29 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, the integration programme is exactly about that. It is about children going to ordinary schools next to their houses. Those are the schools we provided with Kshs10,000 per primary school so that they could facilitate the children. I also said that those who are severely disabled, we have specialised schools where we take them. Otherwise, in all schools now, we have children with disabilities and the teachers are properly trained, as I said, to handle those children. We also give an extra Kshs2,000 on top of the Free Primary Education (FPE) Programme ... view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure they are coming. Some of them had gone for the funeral service for the late mother of the Minister for Trade and Industry, Dr. Kituyi. Please, bear with us. But they are on their way here. Maybe, they are held up in a traffic jam. view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are taking the November 22, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3867 business of the House very seriously. As we are aware, some hon. Members were not even here to ask the Questions which were dropped. But most of the time the Ministers are here to answer Questions. Our colleague lost his mother and I think that is understandable. The Ministers are held up in a traffic jam, but they have started coming in. view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am going to get him. view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry is in the process of developing a strategy and guidelines for establishing two centres of excellence in every district, one for boys and the other one for girls. Thus, there shall be a total of 142 centres of excellence. This is in line with the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESS), 2005 to 2010 and Sessional Paper No.1 of 2005, on the Policy Framework for Education, Training and Research. (b) The District Education Boards (DEBs) are mandated to identify the two schools and forward their recommendations and minutes ... view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the process is going on but is at different levels. We have a task force on the ground, which is looking into all aspects of education in this country. This task force was appointed after we formulated a Sessional Paper on education. It is almost completing its work. The report of this task force will make an input into the guidelines for establishing these schools. view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the question of theft of examination papers, I think the Ministry clarified and showed correctly that this issue was blown out of proportions by the Press. There was no large scale theft of examination papers. For example, the examination papers that were found dumped in Kayole area were papers that belonged to a certain school. They were part of that school's mock examination. They were not national examination papers. But the whole subject was blown out of proportion. We cannot say that there is bad governance in examinations in this country. Our research and ... view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy, Sir, we would like to make this programme operational as soon as possible. It is more prudent to start where infrastructure exists instead of starting from the scratch. I do appreciate the hon. Member's comments. This is something to think about. But for the purpose of implementing the programme as soon as possible, we believe we have taken a quicker route. view
• 22 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the hon. Member listened to me carefully, I said that we are waiting for the outcome of the task force, which will impact on the implementation of this programe. I also said that this exercise will take off next year, which is only a month away. view
• 16 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, could I request that the Question be asked again later as we wait for the Minister, whom I am sure is on the way after moving to the new office? view