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    "id": 686425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chea",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mwinga Gunga Chea",
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    "content": "The other issue I want to address is the question of placement. I agree with hon. Members that we have so many students who have gone through certain degrees in the university. Three years later, you find them in the village disinterested in whatever they did at the university. This speaks to the question of interest. So, the board charged with placement of students has to come up with a mechanism where the interests and the qualifications of a student who is to join a university are followed right from secondary school level. If this does not happen, you will find students joining universities to do courses that they never intended to do. Once they proceed to do such courses, you do not expect them to be productive to the nation and the society because they do not feel comfortable with whatever they are doing. You will, therefore, find that resources are being wasted. If today a student goes to do a Bachelor of Laws Degree and after three years, they are not interested with it, and they opt to pursue something else, what happens to the resources that were spent by the society in educating them? My humble belief is that once the placement issue is addressed well, there will be no wastage of resources. The other issue is on the programmes that are being offered in those universities. I believe that we do not need duplication of courses. If certain universities are competent enough and are endowed with resources to teach a particular course, then we must invest seriously in that university. We do not invest in all those courses that are offered in every university. We want to appreciate that our people would wish to access education at a low cost, but the low cost should not compromise standards. If the University of Nairobi offers a certain course, which they have competent lecturers, then let us give them that opportunity. Let them be funded well so that, at the end of the day, we can produce graduates who know what they are doing in this country and they can assist in the development of this nation. Hon. Deputy Speaker those are the issues I wanted to raise. With those few remarks, I wish to support this Bill."
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