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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to make a contribution to this Motion. If you look back at the history of university education in this country, just 30 years ago, it was very easy for one to get admission into university if one had minimum qualification. Those days, the minimum qualification was two principles and one subsidiary. That is an equivalent of C plus today. It was very easy for candidates with such grades to get admission to universities. However, even though it was that easy at that time, if you went to the universities, you would still find very few students from disadvantaged areas of this country; the so called marginalised areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, so, while it was that easy for Kenyans to get to the university in those days, it was still difficult for kids from marginalised areas to get admission into the universities. Today, it is terrible. One gets the minimum qualification but one does not get admitted to university. It means that life has become worse for those candidates from marginal areas to get admission into university. It is because of inadequate accommodation space in the universities. We have inadequate space in the classrooms as well as inadequate accommodation facilities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that makes it difficult for Kenyans to get admission into the universities. The teaching facilities are too inadequate. Some universities do not even have laboratory equipment. Microscopes are not even there in some universities. I know a university which had only four microscopes. So, that means that admission into university will be pegged on the facilities available, including accommodation and teaching facilities. So, that---"
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