Milgo Alice Chepkorir

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• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, apart from these, there is the political, social and economic blueprints that are skill-intensive. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Apart from these we also have agenda 2063 that is expected to come up with flagship projects that will spur an all-inclusive economic growth in our country and Africa at large. They are in the areas of industrialization, logistics, transport, machinery, food and beverages, science and technology. They are in the various areas, which demand high skills. This will go a long way to provide high quality standard of life where citizens are having a wonderful wellbeing. They cannot do this without gainful employment. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, furthermore, with the recent Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), we realized that even the best of managers and institutions were beaten hands down because of the fact that they ended up having closures because of lack of the best ways to work around this. That is why we had lockdowns, things coming to a standstill, businesses and us as a House. We had to struggle for the first time to hold virtual meetings. I think right now we are getting used to iPads and computers, which is a skill obtained through these provisional training centers. For a long time ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Therefore, the principle object of this Bill is to put in place a legal framework to cover and establish the management of vocational education and training within the counties. One of the functional areas of the county governments as provided for under Part II of Schedule Four of the Constitution relates to village polytechnics and home craft centers. Madam Temporary Speaker, therefore, Part I of this Bill specifically is about the definition of terms such as “authority”, “technical and vocational education”, “Cabinet Secretary” “council”, and “board of management”. That is the definition all through up to Clause 3, which is ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 4 of this Bill speaks to obligation of the national Government; what role the national Government has on the vocational training centers domiciled at the counties or the devolved units. The national Government plays a critical role in development of education research policy on these vocational training centers. Clause 4 (b) is about setting examination standards and certificates. They develop curriculum and co-curricular activities to be conducted in these centers. They have created the institutions. They train and register the vocational centers and build capacity. Clause 4 (g) is to establish partners and linkages to ensure ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Therefore, I am quite worried because of that Kshs2 billion. We kept on struggling as a Committee to bring it back. Madam Temporary Speaker, however, at the close of the budget, this one was still disbursed as equitable share. Some of the county governments have told us that they will manage to ring fence through the enrollment but I do not know whether they will manage to do that. As a Committee, during the remaining time, we are going to follow up on that. The national Government placed a critical role in vocational training centers. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Senate Deputy Majority Leader for that information. You know what we mean by management and you know how governors will always mismanage and divert funds, when there is nothing specific. Come the future, if possible, it is important to ring-fence that funding. It is important that funds follow functions. In this case, to be identified for the various vote heads. Another important function led by the national Government under Clause 4(k), is monitoring and evaluation to ensure implementation is going on well. Clause 4(l) is on development and implementation of a national qualifications framework. The National Government is ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: The county governments are also responsible for developing implementation policies, strategies and standards for this Act. They are also supposed to provide funding necessary for development education standards and identify trainees with special needs. To this effect, they are supposed to develop Educational Assessment and Resource Centers (EARC). Currently, there are no EARC centres. In the course of our interrogation, we asked them how they identified those with hearing impairment, the blind and those with mental cases. They would simply say that they had built ramps. Somebody imagines that all Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) simply need a ramp. A ramp ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, Part II of the Bill is establishment, registration and accreditation of Vocational Education and Training Centres. Clause 8 sets out the categories of VETC that are out there. It categorises them into private and public. Clause 9 speaks to the fact that the county government, in consultation with the relevant stakeholders, must establish and maintain a record of all training centres including integrated centres. At the demand of one register, one will be able to tell how many integrated centres and VETC are in a given county. Clause 10 speaks to sponsorship. Sponsors come in form religious ... view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: (b) is talking about the type of instructors that are there, the qualifications, the registration. Clause 15 talks about registration which is done under technical vocational education and training authority boards for accreditation from the National Government. Clause 15(2) is setting out how one can apply the form that is used to apply for accreditation. Clause 15(3) is speaking about the type of curriculum that must be set out by the Cabinet Secretary. The curriculum as I said earlier is actually the role of the national Government so that we have standardization of vocational training right across the country. Clause ... view