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    "content": "ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING UNIVERSITY THAT aware that the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) offers flexible learning opportunities thereby freeing learners from constraints of time and place while enabling them to combine work and family responsibilities with education opportunities; aware that there is minimum use of ODL in both primary and secondary schools in Kenya; appreciating that this mode of learning would facilitate access to education in areas where fiscal and socio-economic factors hinder access, the Senate urges the National Government to institutionalise and mainstream policies to support ODL through development of an effective regulatory and legal framework for ODL and to establish a national university dedicated to open and distance learning. MEASURES TO DEVELOP RESEARCH IN KENYA THAT aware that research is a mystified domain which remains a preserve of selected Government agencies, academic institution of higher learning and a few other organizations; concerned that even in the said institution of learning, research is usually introduced at post-graduate level, further concerned that research has not been prioritized and very low funding is channeled towards it, the Senate calls upon the national Government to:- (a) Take deliberate measures to cascade research to lower levels of education right from early childhood education level; (b) Inculcate and institutionalize research by introducing it as a compulsory discipline at all levels of education; (c) Develop a clear policy and a legal framework to guide the development and sustainability of research at all levels of education; and, (d) Increase funding for research by allocating at least 1 per cent of the national Budget to research. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. FORMATION OF A COMMITTEE TO UNDERTAKE SECURITY REVIEW IN KENYA"
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