Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1401 to 1410 of 1925.

• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: (i) Sessional Paper No.1 of 2005 which seeks to promote access to secondary education by increasing the number of national schools. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: (ii) The Education Act which gives the Minister the powers to promote and provide quality education to all Kenyans and if you read Section 3(1,2,4(i) those powers are clearly spelt out; how we proceed in creating the national institutions. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: (iii) The current Constitution which requires that all Kenyans be given equal opportunities to basic education which is compulsory. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: (iv) The various post-independence education commission reports and recommendations. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: There is an issue of criteria which has been used to select the 30 national schools in order of priority and it was based on the following criteria:- view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: 1. K.C.S.E performance – consistent good performance of a mean grade of C+ 6.5 and above in the last five years was taken into account. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: 2. Equity considerations – Geographical distribution: Two schools, one for boys and one for girls per county were selected. Consideration was made to ensure that the schools selected were not in the immediate neighbourhood. Ideally, none of the schools should come from any of the counties with a total of 18 national schools. These are as follows:- Kiambu, Nairobi, Nakuru, Uasin Gishu and Kisumu. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: 3. Affirmative Action – in exceptional cases, where no school in a county met the set criteria that I have already enumerated above, an affirmative action was used as for boys a mean grade of 6 flat and as for girls a mean grade of 5.5. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: 4. The infrastructure – Reliable source of water, power and communication network, quality boarding facilities, land for expansion, three or more streams preferably former A level schools and ease of access. view
• 26 May 2011 in National Assembly: 5. Community support – The willingness of the school management and communities and stakeholders to support the idea of the elevation of the school to a national status. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, I wish to inform hon. Members that the process of consultation and identification of schools by stakeholders is still ongoing. Further, I also wish to remind the hon. Members, that on 15th February, 2011, I appeared before the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology and briefed them on my Ministry’s strategy, process and criteria to be used in upgrading the provincial schools into national ... view