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    "id": 185909,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/185909/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assisant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The criteria used to award commonwealth scholarships is the following:- (i) First, of course, the candidate has to apply before he or she is shorlisted for the interview. 2352 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE August 6, 2008 (ii) You must meet certain qualfiications. The first one being that if you have a first degree you must have a first class honours or an upper second class honours for the masters degree. For the Phd, you need to have a proposal and do well in the interview. (iii) With regard to age, for the masters degree, you must be 34 years or below and for PhD, you need to be 44 years and below. (iv) You have to be employed in the public sector or State corporation and those who have done so must have served at least two consecutive years since the last degree and graduated within the last ten years. (v) We also make every effort to address the issue of regional balance to the full extent possible given that the scholarships are very few. (vi) With regard to areas of study, there are those areas that are of priority and include those related to gender issues, poverty allevaition and so on. (b) Very unfortunately, no candidate from Samburu Disrict has benefitted from the commonwealth scholarships in the last ten years. It is very unfortunate but that is the case."
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