H.E. William Ruto, EGH, EBS

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with that. I have nothing to add to it. I think he has said what he should have said. I will provide this information next week on Thursday. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me congratulate the House for this momentous step that we have taken as a country, to come about with a Bill that will put to a stop to the agony of many Kenyans who go through nights, days, weeks and months when their loved ones cannot be found. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir it is because we have men and women in the 21st Century who would want to do business using human beings as goods. This Bill will help secure and deter those who would want to engage in such acts. By extension, it will help secure our borders and our country and deter whoever would want to do this kind of illegal business. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I wish to support. view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The responsibility to coordinate middle-level colleges cuts across a number of Ministries. The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology specifically overseas training in the following medium colleges; 26 technical training institutes, 14 institutes of technology, two national polytechnics, five university colleges and one technical teachers college. The growth pattern over the last ten years in training opportunities especially growth in enrollment in colleges under my Ministry has risen by 25,382 places from 34,453 trainees in the year 2000 to 59,835 in 2010. This is an increase of about 53 percent over ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure the hon. Member agrees with me that, that is a different Question. I am prepared to answer it if he can put that Question directly to me. I will be able to table that list but I want to agree with him, that if we have to actualize Vision 2030, we must produce the men and women especially from our technical institutes that will actually put the nuts and the bolts together. For a very long time, these middle-level colleges have been neglected and every other institute has been turned into a university. As ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: In fact the hon. Member, Mr. Speaker, Sir, is spot on this particular issue. We are actually in the process of transferring even this bursary scheme from the Ministry to the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), so that it is administered in a much more professional manner. Secondly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we actually have to deal with access to technical colleges, we must make it possible for students in those colleges to access loans for their fees. Apart from pushing this bursary to HELB, we will actually make it mandatory in the very near future when discussions are completed ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will shortly be bringing two things to this House; one is the Universities Bill 2010. Hopefully, with that Bill, we will be able to harmonize all statutes that establish the various universities and standardize the management of both private and public universities. This will even introduce the flexibility, so that a Kenyan can go to one university and transfer their grades to another university if they find an issue, which is not possible at the moment. I agree with the hon. Member that we need a rethink of our higher education policy. I want to assure ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with hon. Ethuro that he sympathizes with my sentiments. But I want to assure him that we will consider his request in the broad sense as we upgrade colleges. I want to ask for the indulgence of this House because for many of the colleges that have done very well, leaders have pressured us for these colleges to be made universities. In the process, we have lost a lot of very good technical institutes and colleges. Once you upgrade a technical college to a university, you will lose control and, therefore, the university ... view
• 29 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Indeed, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is already in our planning. view