Prof. Margaret Kamar

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• 24 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I just wanted to give some information to the Members. I want to inform our colleagues from the Back Bench that when Ministers are here, they are very busy. At 7.00 o’clock today, I was in Bondo for a university function and here I am at 7.00 p.m. I am saying this not just for me, but for the other Ministers also. Sometimes we are not understood. So, it is not so much a point of order, but a point of information that we are always very responsible and we are ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Government is currently establishing technical training institutes across the country as follows:- Eight new technical training institutes are being constructed in collaboration with the African Development Bank. These are:- Siala in Migori, Aldai in Nandi County, Bureti in Kericho County, Mukurweini in Nyeri County, Wajir Technical Training Institute in Wajir County, Tseikuru in Kitui County, Dodoma Technical Institute in Kilifi County and Butere Technical Training Institute in Kakamega. We also have five new technical training institutes (TTIs) which are fully funded by the Government as follows:- (i) Ekerubo-Gaitai TTI in ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, actually the groundbreaking of Ziwa was done. The tenders were put out and they are ready for commencement. Both of them are under the Eldoret Polytechnic. There was slow processing. I want to accept that they were slower than the others, because most of the others have spent almost 50 per cent of their funding. These two were slowed down for reasons that we have been made to believe had to do with tenders. Currently, they are underway. So, we are actually now on course. view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have no intention of closing the certificate and diploma courses in Rongo. We now have a policy that we will not close anything. Whenever we upgrade an institution that has had technical courses, we do realize that we need more technical courses, in fact, right now than the universities. So, we have no intention of closing them down. Rongo will continue to offer certificate and diploma courses. What was done, and this resulted in the request for transfer by the Principal and Deputy Principal, was that the transition was not initiated properly. If it was ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is possible that the hon. Member was talking when I mentioned the eight counties that do not have TTIs. I said that Lamu is one of them. I am really waiting for the hon. Member and his colleagues from Lamu to give us a suitable place. We need land documents that we can use. This financial year we have the money ready. This year is very short and I am appealing to the hon. Members from the eight counties please, sit with your joint District Development Committees (DDCs) and give us documentation on any land ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the concern from the hon. Member. It is true that Kenya Polytechnic and Mombasa Polytechnic will be universities very soon. They will, in fact, be technical universities. We are trying to align some of the specialized courses towards those technical universities. Kenya Science Teachers College is one institution that we are going to discuss because they are still under the same mother institution, that is, University of Nairobi. I believe that any suggestions towards ensuring that we retain the quality of the science teacher will be acceptable. As I mentioned earlier, the University of ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. (a) In the last five years, Kenya received 585 scholarship offers from 19 different countries. I have attached the annex. In the annex, I will just read the names of the countries and the number of scholarships that we received: Algeria gave us 15 scholarships in 2007. In 2008 they gave us ten scholarships. In 2011 they gave us eight scholarships. We have not received anything in the other years. China gave us full scholarships. The scholarships for Algeria were partial. China gave us 20 full scholarships in 2007 and 2008. There ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the observation of the Member is correct. We have had irregular numbers being given to the Ministry. We have information that some of the scholarships went through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I have heard Members here say that they have received direct scholarships. We cannot dispute that. What I have given is what came to the Ministry. We also discovered recently that some countries post their scholarships directly on their embassies websites. We only found students coming to our offices for clearance. So, scholarships given by different countries have different policies. Some of them want ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for that elaboration. Really, it is difficult to control, but I have said that we have taken one step further and we are going to invite all the ambassadors to a round table. I am sure if they are listening today, they have realized that we have not recognized some of their scholarships because they are not in our books. So, they will be interested to know how we can also recognize them. A standard criterion is used where all scholarships are advertised in the media. They are also put on the Ministry’s website, ... view
• 22 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will be happy to do that. I think we can always put the list of the candidates who have applied and those who have won. That will make it very transparent because the other candidates will know why they were not considered. So, I agree with the hon. Member’s remarks. view