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    "id": 1278884,
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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 thank Hon. Ruku because it is through this Motion that we are asking the Ministry of Education to disseminate the information to the public. A less needy case is of a parent who earns over Ksh200,000. If the fee is Ksh244,000 then they have a balance of Ksh44,000. The Government scholarship is about 38 per cent. The loan is Ksh93,151. The Government loan is Ksh55,000. This student will pay Ksh17,136. We have instances where parents bring to us fee structures of Ksh200,000 and ask us to pay for the whole amount. I know that universities have issued all the students with admission letters and fee structures attached to them. The student is supposed to go to the nearest cybercafe and fill out the various stages of applying for the loan. Depending on each student’s need… Hon. Ruku has just listed some variables like a parents’ background - which is the main testing instrument - the gender, the course type, the previous schools attended, the expenditure on education, family size and composition, marginalisation, and disability status, among others. The students will be asked the schools they went to and who paid their school fees. If the student are orphans and their fees were paid by the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), that in itself qualifies them to get almost 100 per cent funding. Hon. Temporary Speaker, a question was asked about up-keep. Let me give an example of the vulnerable. Such a student gets a scholarship of 82 per cent, a loan of 18 per cent and Ksh44,000 out-of-pocket for up-keep at the university. Such a student gets full school fees paid and out-of-pocket money. The major problem with the current situation is information not reaching parents. Also, most of the needy and vulnerable students come from the rural areas and from slum areas of urban centres, and most of them do not access this information. There is also an issue of timelines. Timelines have been indicated in this document. Application for a loan has six steps. When students apply for loans, they are supposed to get them in a duration of five days. I was with the Ministry of Education officials and they informed me that the applicants are supposed to be 190,000. As we speak, I do not think they have passed 60,000 and these include students joining Technical and Vocational Education Training institutions (TVETs) and the other institutions. The timelines for students going to university should be increased, as Hon. Nyikal suggested. This is because, as we speak, at times the system is down because of increased traffic. At times parents do not have information and students may not have enough time. All these are attributed to administrative challenges. 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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