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    "id": 306293,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/306293/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The recent ranking of universities was done by two different bodies. The first one was done by a body called the Fourth International Colleges and Universities which was done early in 2012, and which gave results of 100 universities and colleges. In that ranking, only four public universities and one private university in Kenya appeared in the top 100. In another ranking which was done by Cybermetric Lab under the auspices of the Ranking Web of the World Universities which was done in January 2012, there were five public universities in Kenya appearing among the top 100 and two private universities. I am giving these figures because of what I am about to say on why the rankings are different. The rankings of universities by the two bodies base the ranking on some criterion. What appears to be poor ranking of the Kenya universities even among the African countries may be misleading mainly because of the criteria used by the ranking agencies. That is because the two agencies appear to use different ranking criteria. It is instructive that rankings of universities were based on, amongst others, the number of teacher staff in a university who hold PhD Degrees. It is also based on the number of applications. The number of academic and research work posted on the website rather than the quality of what is posted was also part of the criterion. In the Kenyan scenario, most universities carry out a lot of intensive academic and research work. However, this does not get posted to the websites owing to the challenges of ICT inter-connectivity in our universities. So, most of what is done is not on the website and yet the two ranking institutions were only using what they can see in the websites. Furthermore, a number of our lecturers - and I would like to admit - do not hold PhD"
}