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    "content": "Under this programme, university teaching staff with bachelor’s degree will be trained at masters’ level, while those with masters will be trained at PhD level in the fields of engineering and applied sciences. This is a programme that we have just finalized with the ADB and it begins in the year 2013. So, these are some of the measures that we are undertaking. The third initiative we have in the Ministry is through the Pan African University Institute of Basic Science Technology and Innovation, an initiative of the African Union which is now within Jomo Kenyatta University. It is expected to train Kenyans in the fields of masters and PhD levels in engineering and applied sciences. I keep on referring to engineering and applied sciences because this is the area that we had the highest shortage. It is also expected to upgrade the teaching and research capacities of our universities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the fourth initiative is that the Ministry receives about 100 post graduate scholarships from friendly countries all over the world each year. Most of the scholarships are in the areas of sciences, medicine, engineering and technology. It is envisaged that the post graduate studies will be undertaken through the universities. We have prioritized our universities for these scholarships. All these initiatives are aimed at capacity building within our universities in order for them to have an equivalent staff compliment for the expansion that we are undertaking currently. The Ministry will address all other issues as they come up. One part of the Question was on ethnic balancing. It is a very long Question. I would like to say that the Ministry will also address the issue of tribal imbalance in the universities through a series of interventions that spread through a span of three years. This will include the following:- 1. It will ensure that the gender balance in public offices as spelt out in the new Constitution does not exceed two-thirds of personnel on gender and ethnic grouping. 2. We will be reviewing the staffing norms and recruitment procedures for all cadres of staff in the universities. 3. We will be ensuring that the top management in universities strictly adhere to the one-third rule on gender, as well as ethnic balance. 4. Finally, we will be seeking out members of unrepresented communities in the universities, so that there is some level of ethnic representation in each of our departments in the universities."
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