North Imenti MP Rahim Dawod has promised to initiate legislation in Parliament once it resumes from recess that will enhance the enlisting of students from Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) as beneficiaries of Higher Education Loans Board funding (HELB).
Speaking at Meru Teachers Training College during the official opening of a newly built dormitory, Mr.
Dawood said he has information that the current HELB guidelines do not allow funding of the TTCs, and as a result, the formulation of such legislation in parliament was eminent. "I am in talks with the Parliamentary Committee on Education, and I promise that I will push for the legislation in order to ensure the learners from these institutions, just like their colleagues in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVETs), benefit from HELB funding," said Dawood.
He added that some of the learners from TVETs who are benefiting from the funding were undertaking Diploma programmes just like those in TTCs, and therefore there should be no discrimination. "Teachers are the foundation of any nation, including Kenya, and therefore they should be taken good care of just from their training points," said Dawood.
