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    "content": "because standards are compromised and they will never be good professionals. Some employers do not employee graduates from certain universities. Therefore, we are asking the Government to make sure that besides using C+ as the minimum entry grade to the university, we need to take care of those other students who do not attain this grade and above. What happens? In this case, we should also come up with another system where we establish polytechnics which are properly equipped. Those students whose skills have been identified very early when still in high school should be considered. We should embark on enriching and establishing polytechnics to take care of their needs so that the middle level colleges can also be used. What we have now, is that universities are taking over the middle level colleges without putting up alternative colleges. In the end, we will have universities only without the middle level colleges. This is very serious for a developing country. I support this Bill to the hilt. I encourage Sen. Halima to continue with it. When passed, it will be implemented by many counties, especially those who had no opportunity to take their students to the universities which were established in those early days. I am sure people will be happy. The moment one gets a degree, nobody will care to know the university in which it was acquired. What is important is the properly accredited course. If those courses are properly done, then we will produce students with good academic behaviour. That is what we are all going for. Mushrooming universities should be a thing of the past. The CUE should see to it that universities are established in safe grounds. We should have universities in well set up institutions. Students should be accommodated either in the institution or in the neighbourhood where good hostels are well inspected by the CUE. However, we should not leave this entirely to the university council. There are a times when they go for all the money that they want to get. Let us not sacrifice the academic performance or prowess for money. In this case, we should discourage or limit the Module II students joining various universities here in Kenya to regular admissions. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also important to have a centralized admission body, the way it is now. From there, students can be distributed all over to those universities which are already known to offer proper courses before we continue to admit students who, in the end after four or five years, will not be recognised by already established professional bodies. I hope that the Government will come up with proper budgetary allocations to these universities so that they get enough money. This is where education money should go to; not to other unnecessary seminars, meetings and so on. We should ask the Government to allocate more money to research."
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