All parliamentary appearances
Entries 691 to 700 of 862.
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The number of public secondary schools per constituency in Nyamira District are: West Mugirango - 45; North Mugirango - 51, and Kitutu Masaba - 52. (b) A total of 284 students from Nyamira District were admitted to our public universities in the academic year 2003/2004.
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, obviously, this is one of the indications of the extent to which the admission to public universities is skewed in favour of the more established secondary schools. Many district schools suffer in terms of the number of students who make it to public universities. This is a national problem. They are lucky if many of those schools send any candidate to public universities. That is why we should have more institutions. We should also have a programme in place to ensure that students from smaller schools get an opportunity to join public October 26, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES ...
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said that this is a very serious problem. We are doing whatever we can to expand university opportunities. We have already allowed some institutions to be constituent colleges. The solution to this problem is to build more institutions. We need resources to do a major master plan for higher education in this country, to ensure that students from disadvantaged social backgrounds do not lose out on university opportunities. There is a problem which we have to deal with as a country.
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a Ministry, we take certain measures with regard to specific inputs, especially the teachers. We have made every effort to ensure that all the schools that are supported by the Government have adequate teachers. Secondly, another cause of poor performance is the management of the institutions. We urge hon. Members to ensure that secondary schools are managed by qualified head teachers and not by those that are well-connected to politicians. In Kisii, they insist on religious affiliation. This is the case with the Catholics. They insist that a principal of a secondary school has to be ...
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
irrespective of whether he or she is qualified or not. Those religious connotations and political affiliations are matters that we ask leaders to bear with us so that we can have the best principals to run secondary schools, irrespective of other non-merit-related qualifications.
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
I am listening to him, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, do you encourage me to respond to queries by hon. Members of that kind of irresponsible behaviour?
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Pole sana!
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I apologize since I have not been appointed prefect, but I was just very worried about the hon. Member, who is asking for a Ministerial Statement about discipline, and yet he does not exhibit that discipline himself. Nevertheless, we will give that Ministerial Statement on Tuesday next week.
view
-
26 Oct 2006 in National Assembly:
Actually not, Mr. Speaker, Sir, because you did it very well. The hon. Member did apologise and that is why I said I will give a Ministerial Statement next week because we need to consider various facts. For sure, we are encouraging dialogue. But let us remember that most of these lecturers are also employed by university councils. So, we need to consult a little bit, so that we can give an answer that does not appear contradictory in terms of what has been said.
view