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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the third President of the Republic of Kenya, the hon. Mwai Kibaki. Thank you for the correction. I plead that they expedite the expansion of the Faculty of Nursing at MMUST, so that it becomes a fully fledged school of medicine. In view of what the immediate former President stated when he was at Kakamega Provincial General Hospital, I would like the Government, to expedite the expansion of the hospital to a teaching and referral hospital that will be affiliated to MMUST. Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I conclude, I want to comment on the quality of education in our universities. If you saw what happened during the nomination process of the president, governors and deputy presidents in this country at the just ended election, it spoke volumes on the inefficiency of the Commission on Higher Education (CHE). The CHE should come out strongly and ensure that as we increase the number of universities, each university that is given a charter must be seen to have a sufficient number of prerequisite lecturers; and those lecturers should have the proper qualifications to teach our children. At the same time, the parallel degree program should be properly monitored to ensure that students who register for it are only those who have met the minimum qualifications to join those courses and that they are given quality education. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the quality of education in this country is something that is very attractive, and very many rich parents waste a lot of foreign exchange taking their children to universities abroad. I have done a bit of survey on the internet and I have found that there is no university in the United Kingdom (UK) which costs less than 9,000 UK Pounds per annum . This translates to around Kshs1.2 million per annum in the form of tuition. Our children at local universities, receiving quality education, only need between Kshs200,000 to Kshs400,000 per annum to study at the university. I would, therefore, like to encourage Kenyans to believe in Kenya so that the foreign exchange which we waste in paying university school fees for the children who learn out of this country can be put to good use for our economy to grow. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said all those many things, I am privileged to have a House of men and women of letters; today I will request none other than Prof. Lonyangapuo to second the Motion. With those remarks, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move. Thank you."
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