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    "id": 1562641,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562641/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Julius Migos Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can confirm that we have collaborative working agreements with the national Government, through the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, to provide accommodation to tertiary institution students using the Housing Levy through the Affordable Housing Programme (AHP). Indeed, in the last month, there was an advertisement on a number of housing accommodation units to our tertiary and VTCs. I do not have the exact number here, but we are working with them and they agreed that they will assist in providing hostels to our institutions using money from that Fund. Those institutions include universities and tertiary institutions which include TVETs. That will help increase the number of enrolment that we get to those institutions because accommodation is crucial. In terms of the number of students that we are putting through TVETs, I will just use the example of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Examination. We had 25 per cent of students who got C+ (Plus) and above. That means about 75 per cent got below C+ (Plus). The 25 per cent were about 246,000 students. The number of students who sat for KCSE examinations last year were about 965,000. Therefore, we have about 750,000 students who are supposed to go to VTCs and TVETs. When we opened the TVETs portal, about 8,000 students who qualified to go to university elected to go to TVETs. I do not have the actual numbers that have been enrolled to join TVETs this year, but we can provide details in writing, so that I do not give a figure that is incorrect. However, we are doing something about it."
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