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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in a sense, Dr. Rutto has answered his second question by talking about the Commission for Higher Education improving the standards. The universities, as we know, are autonomous. We have an interest, as Government, to ensure that even though they are autonomous, they offer quality and acceptable education because, in many ways, the Government is accountable. It puts resources into the universities. In addition to that, we are saying that this autonomy can only be measured. This is why there is a Commission for Higher Education, which is like an intermediary body between universities and the Government. The Commission for Higher Education has been previously just concerned with private universities. But we are acknowledging the fact that with the expansion of public universities, there are many questions about quality, even in some of the public universities. Therefore, from now on, the recommendation is that the Commission for Higher Education also checks on those standards. I agree with Dr. Rutto, that we need to do more by way of expanding capacity. We are already doing this. We are exploring ways of expanding the capacity of the Commission for Higher Eduction by providing more resources and also giving the Commission a higher mandate to the extent that it would be acceptable by public universities, which has been a problem. The Secretary of the Commission for Higher Education is often below the rank of the vice-chancellors. So, to expect a vice-chancellor to be accountable to the Secretary is a problem. We are also working on the legal mechanism to ensure that accountability is possible for the Commission for Higher Education to have much more teeth than is currently the case."
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