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    "id": 332060,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/332060/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. We have been longing, especially as a Committee, to see this very important transformation in our higher education. This Bill is addressing so many challenges that we have faced in our universities. One very pertinent thing that this Bill contemplates is to have one Act in place of so many Acts that we have. For the information of the House, currently, we have eight different Acts for eight different universities. Therefore, the management of universities varies from one to the other. This Bill will bring harmony and ensure that issues of university education are addressed from one point. Very fundamentally is the quality of education in our universities. We must all agree that we, as Kenya, are not doing very well in the ranking internationally. We, as a country, must endeavour to ensure that our universities competitively compete with other universities internationally. One thing this Bill is addressing is the issue of the Commission for Higher Education whose successor, in this case, will be the Commission for University Education. As I speak now, it has only been in charge of private universities. Our public universities have been independent. Their programmes have not been subject to approval by this very important Commission. The functions of this Commission are critical to the extent that all our universities programmes should be approved by it. One of the functions of the Commission as provided for under Clause 5(1)(c) is to promote quality of university education. That is an"
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