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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for offering me this chance to contribute to this Motion. An open university will offer great opportunity, especially to those who cannot access the physical university. Students will do their courses online; they will be assigned tutors who will guide them through the courses. That will be a cheaper way of making sure that education is accessible to many students from the comfort of their homes or wherever they will be residing. This university education will be reaching to them. I support this idea. There are many universities in Kenya but many people cannot access them because of the cost of many other things that come with university education like accommodation because many universities do not provide hostels for their students. Therefore, an open university that will offer online courses will be a cheaper way of making people access university education. Those who will be unable to continue with their studies in the open university and want to transfer from the open university to the regular universities, will transfer their credits to the regular universities, So, it will not be prohibitive but more flexible. Therefore, I support this Motion. This draft Charter for the Open University of Kenya is an idea whose time has come. This open university will be handy to people living with disability, people living in marginalised areas and nomads. They will access university education from where they will be. We have internet facilities across the country and people can access it through their mobile phones. So, they will not need to invest heavily in it. As the first speaker said, we need to have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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