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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "About two per cent of the University of Nairobi student population was from those schools. So, you can imagine how many of these students will make it into the university with that sort of transition rate. So, the reasoning and the importance of this classification has to be put into place. Therefore, the basis of that marginalization is felt from the word “go”. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the coast region has consistently been second from the bottom in sending both boys and girls to the universities. I am looking at the figures of public universities rather than private universities because that has changed over time. For a long time, it has been impossible for a child who has grown up in the coast region to join a public university. Maybe it is because there have not been enough role models, especially across the gender divide. Therefore, the socio-cultural issues cannot be underplayed. The reason everybody struggles to get into a national school is because of availability of facilities. In fact, for a long time, once your child is able to get a place in the national school, you knew from the word go that he will join university. He will enjoy good facilities and be guided by very qualified teachers. They are able to do research and have access to the laboratories. That is why the competition for places in national schools is so high. If you look at schools at the Coast Province, for example, Shimo la Tewa and Star of the Sea, they would have been upgraded to national level status long time ago. It took time for the Government to upgrade them. We expected them to have produced many students to join public universities. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we think about devolving the public universities, it is critical that we devolve even the content of the public universities at the county level. As the transition and devolution has been taking place, most of the public schools have already had some sort of devolution in place in terms of courses offered at the county level. In fact, most of the public universities that have devolved at the county level are now offering the Module II Programme. The Module II Programme is an economy The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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