Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1611 to 1620 of 1925.

• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Secondly, the mobile schools are not elsewhere in the Republic of Kenya, but specifically in the ASAL areas. We have also targeted programmes for ECD. That is a specific programme for North Eastern Province. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: The hon. Member is privy to the information that this morning we had a very lively debate on the way of improving both the access, retention, transition, equity and finally the relevance of the curriculum to that level. He is also privy to the information this morning we also discussed on the question of teacher provision to this region. That also has a direct relevance to quality of education. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have no intention of placating any Member of Parliament on issues of facts. These are facts the hon. Member sought from us. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: In Garissa, in the Financial Year 2008/2009, we spent Kshs91,823,940. In Ijara, we spent Kshs90,077,120. In Mandera, we spent Kshs57,860,580. In Wajir, we spent view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Kshs40,238,360; a total of Kshs280 million. This is a targeted programme, which is not available in the rest of the country. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Secondly, the hon. Member is fully aware that we are also doing what we call nomadic mobile schools in this region. There is a special budget which was set aside for this programme. The money may not be enough, but we have targeted at that level. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Thirdly, the hon. Member is aware that we have a special bursary programme where the best performing students - which has a direct relationship with the quality of education - where they are being given admission to schools outside their provinces and they are fully supported with the bursary funds to join national schools. This has given us a very good performance indices depending upon the number of candidates we have taken. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the hon. Member should care to listen. Apart from the national programme we are talking about, we have special bursary programme for North Eastern students, and particularly, the girl child, who are being taken and paid for full boarding. This has helped us to breach the gap with the rest of the country. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, it is quite clear to me and to my Ministry that when we are looking at the total enrolment in terms of access to our schools, there are one million children out there. The bulk of them are from the ASAL or pastoralist areas. The other balance of children are within pockets of poverty in our municipalities and cities. We still have children we are unable to reach. For us to carry out a meaningful and successful programme and in order to achieve education for all by 2015, we are now doing a proactive programme ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: The hon. Member knows that on 15th July, 2010, I will be launching the nomadic education policy in Garissa. I will go to Mandera on 12th July, 2010; Wajir - 13th July, 2010; Garissa - 14th July, 2010 to 15th July, 2010 for the launch of this policy. In order to capture the number of students who may be left out and to target quality programmes for this region, we propose to set up, through an Act of Parliament, what we call the “Nomadic Education Commission”. This Commission will have a direct policy and implementation programme. I indicated figuratively that ... view