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    "id": 1266605,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1266605/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Motion on the Open University in Kenya. This is a noble idea which has come at the right time. The world has become a global village and it is high time education became simple to achieve. We should access education using simple means. Kenya has come of age for this type of institution, just like the University of South Africa (UNISA), which offers all the programmes. It has graduated students from undergraduate up to the level of PhD. Therefore, for this particular innovation of an Open University, it is the best thing that can happen to Kenya. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we experienced difficult times where people were left staying at home, children did not go to school, students in colleges and higher institutions like universities did not learn. However, if we had such an institution, learning would have been a continuous process. Students would have accessed knowledge wherever they were. The advantages of such institutions are many as have been enumerated by the Mover of the Motion. For example, the PWDs or the people who are not able to move from one point to the other would be able to access education. A colleague also talked of the people who might be shy to go and advance their studies because it has taken them long. This will then give them the opportunity to access education without physically going to class. It will also encourage exchange programmes. As I said earlier, Kenya has become a global village. We will have students all over the world accessing programmes in such an institution in Kenya and we will also have our students accessing programmes in other countries. In that case, we will have educational tourism and Kenya will benefit from foreign exchange."
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