Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1621 to 1630 of 1925.

• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have expressed myself in this House and outside this House about the question of shortage of teachers. Currently, we have a shortage of 56,000 teachers, that is, 33,000 primary school teachers and 23,000 secondary school teachers. I made a presentation both to the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology before the Budget was done. I also made a presentation to other committees and the Treasury. My presentation to the Treasury was that apart from the Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) under which we were to employ 12,500 teachers, we needed also to employ permanent and ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank Mr. Kizito for that question. Indeed, we have now gone beyond research and we have the policy document in place. We have done enough survey and research. We are now at the level of implementation. That is why I said that one of the documents I will launch on 15th July, 2010 is the Nomadic Education Policy. Beyond that and in conjunction with the UNICEF we now propose certain legislative processes establishing the Nomadic Education Commission. This Commission will tackle the problems and issues that we have so far researched and ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, mobile schools are no different from the other schools. It is the methodology of reaching out to the children. So, there are no special students to graduate from those schools. They are all Kenyan students. They are Kenyan children from Standard One to Standard Eight. So, do not expect that. I want to tell you this--- view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will choose another route in order to give this Commission--- It is a serious business and we must treat it as such. Instead of establishing it under the subsidiary legislation in the Education Act, we will go to the parastatal level where we will seek for an Executive order to establish the Nomadic Education Commission. The Commission will have all the rights and privileges spelt out in Parastatals Act. So, we can address this matter more adequately. Under the Education Act, it will be less pronounced. view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to respond and give a Ministerial Statement on a matter that was raised by hon. Ochieng, Member for Nyakach Constituency, on the question of the disbursement of funds from the year 2003-2009 under the Free Primary Education funds and the capitation of Kshs1,020 per pupil from the financial year 2009/2010. The Government began the disbursement in categories of Kshs852, Kshs183 and subsequent categories. He wondered why some schools were receiving lower amounts per child and wished to know view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: whether the Minister could table the allocation per school, province and explain the basis of the categorization. He also wanted to know whether, if all the schools received the same allocation per child from the year 2003 to 2009, how come the Ministry alleges that schools have less text books than others from the 2009/2010 financial year and what informed the reduction in the allocations and where the extra amounts been directed to. He also sought to know what the Minister will do to curb any misappropriation of those funds. We all know that when the Free Primary Education was ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: That categorization was based on a joint study carried out by the Ministry of Education, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID and Kenya National Audit Office (KENAO) Value for Money Programme during the Financial Year 2008/2009. The objective of the study was to determine the amounts of free primary education grants received by every school and instructional materials/textbooks purchased on subjects and class basis from 2003 to 2008. The 2009/2010 allocations were thus based on the findings and recommendations of the above study based on five categories below. If adopted, there will be a paradigm shift for a targeted ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: issue of measures against misappropriation of free primary education funds, the Ministry has mounted tracking programmes targeting schools identified by the value for money study findings with the consumption rate greater than 45 per cent to ensure that proper action is taken. Further, any misuse by the priority schools will be promptly investigated. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to reveal to the House that between March and April this year, 2010, the Ministry investigated 452 schools and the report is being generated. Schools that will be found to have mismanaged the funds will be disciplined. Further, it ... view
• 1 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was a note from the Implementation Committee on a matter that we needed to inform this House. I will not read the statement. I want to put it on record that my Ministry was requested to put it on record what action we have taken on the question of budgetary allocations to public primary and secondary schools to enhance quality education. Therefore, we have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly. I have this statement here, and I want to place it on record that we have complied with the request by the ... view
• 30 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to respond to Mr. Wamalwa’s point of order on the problem of acquisition of birth certificates by both parents and students in view of the fast approaching 30th June, 2010 deadline, which is today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will recall that the deadline was extended from 31st of March to 30th June, 2010 for a period of three months to enable parents and students to acquire birth certificates. The information from the Kenya National Examinations Council indicates that more than 70 percent of the students have been registered with the Kenya National Examinations Council with ... view