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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Rutto",
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Kipkemoi Rutto",
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    "content": "There is need, therefore, to strengthen staffing and physical development, particularly in terms of laboratories in secondary schools, libraries, books and so on, so that the quality of education in secondary schools is improved. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second point is that the NARC Government and also the previous Government have ignored generally, the development of middle level colleges. Many of the secondary school dropouts and those students who do not go to the universities are left at this level. We have left the development of middle level colleges to the private sector and we are not even checking the standards that are produced in those colleges. The policy of education in this Republic regarding the development of middle level colleges is wanting. The President should have given his direction on this matter. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is also a need to expand university intake. Traditionally, universities have pegged their admission criteria to the availability of boarding facilities. Although I am told that they are going to scrap that unwritten requirement, universities have remained traditional, they are not creative and, therefore, they are now telling us that they are going to raise the cut-off point from grade \"B\" or \"B+\" to \"A-\". I think the Government should encourage the universities to be more creative. Pegging admissions to boarding facilities is unfair and I think universities should start rising up from their slumber. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to comment on the development of the economy, which the President kept highlighting and advising us to look at. The NARC Government should be appreciated in terms of collection of more money through taxes. I think we have realized, as a nation, that they have been able to establish mechanisms through which they have collected more taxes than any other Government before and we should clap for them."
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