Dr. Valerian Kilemi Mwiria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, they will not qualify to be head teachers of schools since they will not have been recruited in the first place. Secondly, it is not the policy of the Ministry for teachers to be recruited locally. It is the policy of the local communities that leads to that recruitment. I said that the problem is not really the Ministry--- view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think hon. Angwenyi raised the issue of whether or not we can consider centralising the recruitment of teachers. Yes, I would like to confirm that, even though I did not remember to respond to that directly, we are also considering that policy. The idea of just leaving BOGs to be recruiting teachers--- Sometimes, we have found out that it is not necessarily the merit that they go for. A local person is preferred to another one, even when that person is more qualified. So, yes, it is true. This is a major issue. As ... view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the criteria that we have currently gives preference to teachers who graduated several years before. So, the year of graduation is important and preference is given to teachers who graduated in, say, 1999 or 2000, to those who graduated in 2003 or 2004. So, this is part of the policy for both primary and secondary school teachers. You get more marks if you graduated earlier. view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I indicated that, yes, teachers will retire through natural attrition, but we do inspection and sometimes there are complaints from parents and committees. When there are those complaints and when there is inspection, action is taken against a teacher who is seen to be a non-performer. So, we do not wait until they retire if they are not good. We also do not transfer them to other schools because that is transferring a problem. We, normally, ask that they get demoted. However, there are local communities which have taken their own initiative. For example, in ... view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to donate two or three of my minutes to Mr. Muchiri. view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak in support of this very noble idea. This is basically in support of what, we in the Ministry, have been saying in the last four years; that we see great value in early childhood education for development of the child and the nation. We are interested and very keen to support programmes for early childhood education for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons relate to the overall development of the child that a number of hon. August 22, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3349 Members have ... view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. So, I was saying that the serious hinderance for us is limitation of resources, but a great deal is already being done. We hope this policy will target four to five-year-old children because this is a very critical stage. It is going to be comprehensive in that we would like to incorporate early childhood education within the mainstream education system such that it is not seen as separate and heading towards what hon. Members were suggesting namely having an early childhood education centre in every primary school. I have already spoken about the ... view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. The Ministry of Education has no immediate plans to make Kisii Campus a fully-fledged university. However, Kisii Campus has been upgraded to a constituent college of Egerton University. It will be considered for upgrading to a university when it acquires the necessary infrastructure. So, there will be no problem with upgrading it, but not immediately, as long as we have the right infrastructure. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The school's audited accounts for the years 1998 and 1999 reveal that a total sum of Kshs990,380 was collected during that period towards the purchase of a school bus. The collections were as follows: 1998 - Kshs693,000 and 1999 - Kshs297,000, making a total of Kshs990,380. Misappropriation of the money cannot be ruled out since there is no report regarding proper utilisation. (b) It is true that the money is still unaccounted for as the intended bus was neither purchased nor the money banked in any savings account. The whereabouts of ... view