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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "financial challenges? As Sen. (Dr.) Langat engages with the Committee on Education, we are also curious to know what is going on in our universities. Why are they having all these financial challenges? What is the issue? What is wrong with the curriculum? We want to know because we are interested. Madam Deputy Speaker, we have a population of very young people that needs to be accorded the future they deserve. Young people are now more attracted to study in private universities because their programmes seem to have what they need to get into the job market. What is happening to our public universities? We need to interrogate the programmes that they have. One of the Senators mentioned something about private and public universities and the allocation of students in the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS). I am a bit privy to this. I know what private universities receive from the Government is in line with the number of students that they have been allocated in the KUCCPS. The spirit of allocating some students to private universities was not to compete with the public universities. I think it was a way to accord access to education to all out students, so that they can get a feel of what is in the private universities. It is not a bad idea; it is something that we need to celebrate and understand. It did not come from a bad place when it was initiated. The Government has now put a cap on the number of universities because we need to look more into the Technical, Industrial, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TIVET) as opposed to just graduates. We need to expand our TIVET education, so that we can get a more skilled workforce out there. Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank Sen. (Dr.) Langat for this. We look forward to seeing the deliberations of the Committee and what they come up with. Thank you."
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