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    "id": 20448,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to clarify that universities will continue to grow. Universities will have campuses. Right now, we have quite a number of little colleges which we have converted to university campuses. In some cases, we only have one programme to start a campus; the campus then grows to a university college. From the status of a university college, an institution will be allowed to be autonomous at some stage. So, it is true that even Chepkoilel University College can grow and become autonomous. When it comes to the programmes, a university Senate can propose any academic programme on earth, and not necessarily what was initially given to the baby campus. There is a procedure through which a university Senate can start any academic programme. So, mother Moi University can even start a school of environmental studies today, if they so wish. Each university looks at its own strength and decides which academic programmes they would like to handle. As a matter of fact, Moi University gave birth to Maseno University and Masinde Muliro University. The people who went to start the programme in Masinde Muliro University were actually from the Faculty of Engineering of Moi University. This is one of the strengths of Masinde Muliro University currently, but that has not stopped Moi University from carrying on with engineering programmes. So, if Moi University would like to continue with the School of Environmental Studies, they can still use their internal procedure even now to start the same programmes. It does not mean that when you start another college, or you start a campus, you actually kill the programmes in the mother university. It is just for the sake of expansion of university education in this country that existing universities take their strong faculties out to start constituent colleges in middle level institutions. When those constituent colleges grow and become autonomous, they start the university programmes they would like to run. Each university looks at the strategic programmes that can meet the needs of this country."
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