22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting this very important Bill. At the outset, this Bill is very important. It has come at the right time because it is meaningless and futile for a student to study for four or eight years in school and then not sit for the examination finally because the parents could not afford the examination fee. When the Government has given the offer to make the school programme free, they should also make all examinations completely free for all levels from Class Eight ...
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
not able to meet those deadlines and they lost. Imagine when you have stayed in school for four years and at the end of it all you cannot sit for examinations when you are supposed to. All those years are wasted and getting school fees to go back to school again is very demeaning. I will also talk about infrastructure in our schools.
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
not able to meet those deadlines and they lost. Imagine when you have stayed in school for four years and at the end of it all you cannot sit for examinations when you are supposed to. All those years are wasted and getting school fees to go back to school again is very demeaning. I will also talk about infrastructure in our schools.
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we talk about schools we have it is because we have a lot of expansion of schools. Many secondary schools are being opened but the staffing of the schools is so much wanting. You find that there are only six teachers against 12 streams in a secondary school. It makes our schools sub- standard. It makes us produce people who are half-baked. I want to plead with the Government that as much as we speak about free education, we should make sure that staffing and infrastructure is important because many of the students we produce ...
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we talk about schools we have it is because we have a lot of expansion of schools. Many secondary schools are being opened but the staffing of the schools is so much wanting. You find that there are only six teachers against 12 streams in a secondary school. It makes our schools sub- standard. It makes us produce people who are half-baked. I want to plead with the Government that as much as we speak about free education, we should make sure that staffing and infrastructure is important because many of the students we produce ...
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I---
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I---
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can imagine that many of my colleagues are beneficiaries of the 8-4-4 System of Education. Some of us are the old guards of the older system. I beg to apologise if it offends some of them. What I meant to say is---
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can imagine that many of my colleagues are beneficiaries of the 8-4-4 System of Education. Some of us are the old guards of the older system. I beg to apologise if it offends some of them. What I meant to say is---
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22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
I have withdrawn.
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