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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to support the Motion for the Adjournment. I think it is appropriate that hon. Members take a break to reflect on the issues that we have discussed since the opening of Parliament. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we adjourn, I want, on a personal note, to reflect on the matter of the examination results. I was about to put a supplementary question to the Minister, but I did not get the time. The debacle with regard to the examination results is, to me, a very serious issue. What I thought the Minister spoke about was to try to justify the position of the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), which I do not think is right. I should have expected the Minister to talk about something like, say, constituting an independent audit, so that Kenyans may know exactly what happened. The sort of things you hear these days when exam time comes makes you begin to wonder. Is it probably right that we should now start thinking about having exams printed outside this country? It appears that from the time we started having exams being printed within the country, many things, especially to do with leakages, are becoming more and more frequent. Indeed, these days, it appears like our exams are leaking more than our ordinary baskets and that does not augur well for us. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we seriously need to re-look at our education system in totality. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, sometimes somebody would come into the office with a masters degree certificate, and when you read the letter of application that is presented to you, you wonder if it is the person or it is our education system which is wrong. I am amazed when I see people who hold masters degree certificates having problems with basic things like the possessive \"their\" and the word \"there\" or the singular \"this\" and the plural \"these\". I think we really need to re-look at our education system in totality, because I believe it serves a vital purpose in national development. Some of the things we see do not augur well for us. Are our institutions of higher learning living by their vision and mission statements? Sometimes when you look at all our institutions from Masinde Muliro, Egerton, Moi, Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Kenyatta Universities, you have to ask yourself whether they are living by their mission and vision statements. I know there will be a lot of denials. I happen to have been at our local universities for both my under-graduate and post- graduate degrees, and I know some of the things that I am talking about. I know that when you talk about those things in this august House, the managers of those institutions go into denials and unions will say that we should not be saying those things and so on. I am of the opinion that some of these things must be much be said. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in my view, some good sections of our universities are slowly turning into factories. You will permit me to say so. I think some of the good sections of these universities are turning into factories for manufacturing what I would call - for lack of a better word - STDs. That means \"Sexually Transmitted Degrees\". That is not acceptable. We need to have our universities living up to the expected standards, and producing degrees which are respectable both within and without Kenya. With those remarks, I beg to support the Motion of Adjournment."
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