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    "speaker_name": "Mr Julius Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": "with a particular model that deals with Sharia Law to be compliant. That is so that we do not force people to go to a different level. It is being done. That suggestion is very welcome. Thank you for it. Hon. Bensuda is on whether feasibility and the cost-benefit analysis was done. Yes, it was done. That is why universities have slightly been able to meet their requirements for the last two years when this model has worked. What happened at Multimedia University is unfortunate. This morning I was informed that it was a particular pipe that burst. There was no water going to the hostels. That malfunction has since been rectified. There is a meeting with students tomorrow. We will have a report at the end of the day. That is being done. The cost-benefit analysis was done. To be clear, I have not said we are going to amalgamate. Please, do not get me wrong. The Ministry has not said it will amalgamate any bursaries because we are not yet there. It is a conversation that is going on and you are having it. Other people are having it. We will apply it as necessary once it becomes law. On the old funding model, Hon. Ruku said that perhaps we need details for the 14,000 students. That is a good suggestion. We are going to get details from the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) and share with you. If somebody from your constituency comes, you will be able to determine and find out why they have not gone to school. That is a very good suggestion, and thank you very much for it. The issue of Prof. Kiama is active with the council and the university. We are dealing with it. We will be able to give you a report once it is concluded. It is not yet concluded. It is a governance issue and it is being dealt with. The Woman Representative of Busia raised issues of discrimination. That is why we are saying information can be collated when data is placed into the MTI. We are trying to find out whether students give correct data. Can something be done? The intention of the funding model is not to discriminate against anybody but to ensure that students who need support of Government in doing their courses are able to study. Thank you, Hon. Mathenge, for your suggestions. It is true that the scope needs to be expanded to ensure that the gap is not too wide. You reduce the error when you expand variables and you are able to bring the results closer to the margin of error. Hon. Speaker, on the issue of three months, the students have been advised on what we are doing – that once we do the banding or re-banding, depending on where they are, we will then deal with that issue at that point and give room for them to continue paying or not paying until the issue is resolved. We are not going to disenfranchise the students by, for example, saying that a student in a certain band has to be moved to this or that band and if he has been moved and he did not pay, he should go back home or something like that. That is what we are working on because the Fund is giving much more money to the universities than before. For example, this year, the Differentiated Unit Cost (DUC) has given 38 per cent. If you take the 75,000 students who have paid and compare with the portion that the Government has paid, you will find that the funding model has paid much higher than 38 per cent. So, there are more resources in the universities and that is how universities keep students in school. We will work this out to ensure that whatever problem there is in this mechanism is sorted out without affecting students because they were not the cause of the problem. So, we are alive to it and we are resolving it. The suggestion that we should give quarterly reports to this House on safety measures is an excellent suggestion so that we become accountable. Everybody should be aware of what happens in our schools. Since you represent various constituencies, if you find a school in your constituency that does not meet the standards, you can help us through your system to ensure that the school has what is required to ensure that students are safe. That is an excellent suggestion. We will pick it and run with it. 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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