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    "id": 130727,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/130727/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kosgei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13,
        "legal_name": "Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I presented the budget for the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, I said that last year the Ministry tried to get funding from external sources to create new tertiary colleges. We also applied to the Treasury and got some modest funding to start new ones. We expect to do 13 new colleges within the next few years. The funding is quite well assured although it is not all in hand, we are quite confident. We have signed the necessary papers with the external funders. Please, note that not all the 16 colleges above were tertiary colleges. Some were teacher training colleges. They were surrendered by the relevant Ministry for those purposes. In fact, when they were surrendered to become campuses, the Ministry of Higher Education was not in the same docket with the Ministry of Science and Technology. Therefore, we are trying to do a little more than to replace and do a few more colleges. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are very well aware of the fact that we cannot expect to develop and have only 45,000 students in tertiary colleges when we have 170,000 in universities. It should be the other way round. We are very much aware and that is a life policy that the people I work with the Ministry are trying very hard to effect."
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