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    "id": 335884,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/335884/?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. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the amendment is harmless, but it is providing for a detail which is already there. The Joint Admissions Board currently has a criterion. The only problem is the vacancies in our universities. So, even if we include this amendment and the vacancies are not there, if a student applies for a law degree programme and we have 200 vacancies for that course and 200 students qualified for the same, the cut-off point criterion will be used. The remainder will have to be off-loaded and be asked to re-apply for other courses. So, the issue is not lack of criterion. The criterion is there. It is just that we lack vacancies to accommodate all the students. We are trying to address this problem by expanding the universities’ capacity instead of changing the existing criterion. The criterion is good and is very transparent. In fact, if you look at the website of the Joint University Admissions Board, you will appreciate that it is a document which is open. You can see that students qualified for sure but we have problems with vacancies."
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