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    "id": 277608,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/277608/?format=api",
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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, we recognize that a C+ is an entry point to the university. We recognize that in the Ministry and, currently, as you saw in the Press yesterday, we have 118,000 students who got C+ and above. The JAB meeting that took place two days ago could only admit a maximum of 41,000 because of the space in the seven public universities and 14 public university colleges. The remaining will be applying for parallel programmes and in private universities. To answer what the hon. Member has asked, the Ministry is trying to expand a bit for our students so that we cover that. That is because those 118,000 students are just one-third of the students who went through Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). So, we are still offloading too many students at the level of KCSE. For that reason, we hope that before the end of this year, we will have asked the President to release charters for another ten universities. We will be releasing charters for seven universities – normal regular universities. We will also be releasing charters for three technical universities. That is because we also want to build education that goes through the technical line. So, as space will be expanded by the end of this year, we will comfortable. We believe that once we have created those ten, then we will be able to increase the university colleges. That is because once we release the ten university colleges that are existing, we will have room for expansion of the others."
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