The Members of Parliament in the commission of education, technology and environment management debated with the delegates from the Ministry of education on these issues as to vote a law that will govern how students winners of the national exams will be allocated with the bursaries. Some of them ( MPs) stipulated that the allocation will be done according to the level of mars that students would be achieving.
Despite these claims forwarded by MPs, the Minister of education Dr. Papias Musafiri, at his side, underlined that this would be defined by the importance of some lessons according to the national educational policies and socio-economic priorities.
According the new law project elaborated by the technicians from the Ministry of education, only the nationals are entitled to receive such education bursary and will be having the maximum required marks.
The ministry of education is the only one institution to elaborate the list of selected ones to receive that learning bursary to be paid back to the government.
Other criteria for the students to receive the bursary involve the fact the lessons that the student have undergone would be of national interest, thus, worthy to be supported.
One should also have succeeded remarkably and been social economically listed in the Ubudehe categorization as worthy to receive the required bursary.
At their side, the delivery of the bursary to students should take into account the marks one has won as to encourage competition among them, MPs underlined.
Hon Mudidi Emmanuel who previously has led the Ministry of education advocated for such competition as to upgrade the competition among universities as these institutions are not competitive at the same level, he informed.
Mudidi said that the most successful students will be, consequently, admitted to best universities and thus increase the learning and working quality both throughout the schooling and at the working place.
Both the Ministerial delegation and the MPs agree on the importance of the marks during the selection of students to attend a given high learning institution but the diverging arguments arose from the ministerial claim that the lessons privileged by the state would be having a significant place in such selection.
MPs advised that this selection option needs a consensus from the wider population after understanding what it means the ‘lessons set up according to national socio-economic priorities’
Some of them called it an ‘Open discrimination’ to some students who won marks but are not lucky to enter a university simply because the lessons they succeeded in are not part of ‘lessons set up according to national socio-economic priorities’.
The debate will be resuming this Tuesday morning as MPs will be urging for more insights about this new law in making from the Ministry of education officials.
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