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    "speaker_name": "Kabuchai, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga",
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    "content": "university when they were above 18 years old. With the 8-4-4 system, a child who has not repeated a class finds himself in Form IV at the age of 16. This Bill has come at the right time. I commend Hon. Joyce Kamene for bringing it. The only urgent thing that we need to consider is timely funding by the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). Let those students who are joining universities know their fate of how much they have been funded six months before joining. This will enable them to appeal, if they are not satisfied. The Appeals Board should consider their appeals one or two months before they join universities so that they can enjoy the fruits of their hard work. We must also talk about adequate funding. The current university funding model has problems. I am getting calls because those students who appealed for being placed in the wrong bands have not been given feedback, yet they are going to sit for their end of semester examination. Most universities have a zero balance policy. If you do not clear your fees balance, you do not sit for the examination. You are not given an examination card. This Bill should be expedited, so that we move to a university funding model that will assist most of our students. If the current university funding model was there during our time, Hon. Temporary Speaker we would not be where we are today. We would not have graduated. This is the harshest university education funding model to have ever been put in place in Kenya. I am very happy because this Bill will cure the problems that we have at HELB. I urge that we make the application for this funding very simple. During our time, we simply applied by filling up a form and taking it to the HELB office, and we got the money. There were not many complications. Currently, the system of application is digital. Students go to cybercafes, where operators fill in general information for every student. The information is generalised. Let us look at how the application system has been developed. We should come up with the simplest method of application. The students live with us. They stay in locations. Let the chiefs for those locations sign their application forms, and that should be sufficient. If we revert back to that system, we will solve the problems. Every child in this country lives in an area which has a chief, an assistant chief, and an Assistant County Commissioner. If we accept the signatures of those officers as sufficient for this purpose, we will solve the current problems. Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent the people of Kabuchai in this House by talking about this Bill."
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