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    "id": 1278876,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Motion by Hon. Ruku. As the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research as well as an educationist, I want to bring out the issues very clearly. Education funding in this country has undergone several changes since Independence. Between 1963 and 1975, there were Government scholarships for students pursuing university education. Between 1975 and 1990, tuition fees scholarships and out-of-pocket money were fully paid by the Government. In 1991, when I had just joined university, there was introduction of what was called “Pay-As-You-Study,” where Government asked students to pay part of school fees from their parents’ pockets and part of it through HELB loans. The loan system was actually introduced a bit earlier. The funding model we want to introduce today actually existed before. The model referred to as Differentiated Unit Cost (DUC) is where universities and students were funded based on the courses they were taking and the infrastructural development of the university. Earlier on, funding was uniform. The new model has been introduced to address three or four main issues. One, previously, the Government funded universities on a wholesale scale, where it gave a lump-sum amount of money to universities based on the total number of students admitted at the university. If a university had 50,000 students, the Government would give it a block figure of, say, Ksh10 billion. Most universities are in debt because they did not receive enough money. In order to address this issue, the Government has decided to pay the amount required per student based on costs of the course being pursued by each student. This new formula has come into play to solve this problem."
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