Daniel Dickson Karaba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1441 to 1450 of 1622.

• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance again to, first, congratulate the Mover of the Motion. Also in support of it, I say that Early Childhood Development (ECD) is a very important component of education in our system. There is no way we are going to run away from it, because it is the background to what we call sound educational development of a child. If we are going to talk about child development, starting from birth, this is the most critical stage of our education system, where the kids are exposed to ... view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the problem we have in Kenya, particularly with our August 15, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3215 country is braindrain--- After the scientists are trained they take off to other countries and capitals in Western Europe and America. What measures is the Ministry taking to ensure that as soon as our scientists are trained, and they have spent a lot of money from our taxpayers, are retained in the country, without them necessarily moving out because of poor pay? view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what will happen to some of the colleges that have been very useful to our education system, but have been taken up by universities? Is the Ministry ready to contract or even upgrade others to take the place of those ones! Kenya Science Teachers College (KSTC), for example, is almost being upgraded to the level of a university. What will happen to the status of that college? 3218 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 15, 2007 view
• 14 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute in support of this Vote for the Ministry of Energy. The Ministry of Energy is an example of the very few Ministries in this country which seems to know what development is and what it entails, particularly in maintaining development trends. This is a Ministry that many Kenyans think will save us from poverty in the future and, more so, with the coming up of cottage industries in the rural areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Energy has done a lot and we ... view
• 14 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support view
• 9 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is for the same reason that you will find that most students are going to Uganda to get degrees from universities which we do not know whether they are accredited or not. Could the Assistant Minister ensure that those degrees from Uganda which have been awarded after two years are proper degrees or if they are those ones which will earn them no jobs here in Kenya and outside? view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Education:- (a) whether he is aware that students living in insecurity prone areas of Molo, Mt. Elgon and Tana River are not able to complete their syllabus on time in readiness for examinations; and, (b) whether he could consider lowering entry points to public universities to cater for the affected students. view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Assistant Minister for that very good answer. He has said that he is aware there are problems in those areas. He further went on to say that they will not lower the cut-off points or consider those affected areas. That is of great concern. The contents of the syllabus is tested at the end of every four years. He has confirmed that most of those students will not have completed the syllabus. If that is true, and those children are still disadvantaged, could we relocate them to safer areas permanently, so that they ... view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, once again. You realise that students living in insecurity prone areas, besides suffering from the non-coverage of syllabus, they still face problems of bias from the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC). The setting of questions is biased towards favouring those areas which are populated and urban centres. Very rarely do we have questions set favouring students from the insecurity prone areas. That means that those areas will be disadvantaged. Could you ask the KNEC to broad-base their questions while setting examinations so that they can also capture the interests of students who are affected? view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Due to the interest shown by hon. Members to support this Motion, I am ready to donate a few minutes to hon. Mwandawiro and hon. P.G. Muriithi--- view