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    "content": "college partnering with a university and purporting to be a university or of a university standard. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue of concern is that of student body. Clause 40 says:- “Every university shall have a students’ association, elected by the student body.” What is “the student body?” There is no definition of a student body. If you do not define that what that means is that the university teaching staff can decide to elect ten people as the student body, who will then have a students' association. To me, if you do not define what a student body is, we might be playing games and denying students their rights. We must define what we mean by “a student body.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, under Clause 55, where you find the functions of the placement board, I would like us to add a sub-clause 3 to the effect that as much as possible we should allow students to access courses of their preference or the next alternative courses they apply for, especially in light of affirmative action, so that we do not say--- This is based on the earlier remarks that I had made yesterday, where you find young girls like my niece who did exceptionally well but did not qualify with straight “As”, cannot qualify for a course number 1, 2, 3 or 4. So, why was she bothering to get an “A”? She might as well get a “D” and go fishing anyway, because you do not need to get an “A” to get the courses that you qualify for, and, yet, you will find people who have lower marks getting the courses that she prefers to go for. Also, allow people to go to the universities that they choose. Do not force people to go to universities that they have not chosen, unless the courses that they want are provided in those universities. We want to ensure ethnic balance, which I really support and promote. Again, we do not want to promote somebody who went to primary school in Murang’a, secondary school in Murang’a and university in Murang’a. Their world view would be about Murang’a and that person would not know that in another county there are also Turkanas. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have several amendments I want to propose, but because other Members would want to contribute, I will stop there. I once again thank the Minister for bringing this Bill."
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