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    "content": "primary or secondary schools. This is because it is very expensive to put up a university that has all the requirements to make it worth its name. We all know that we lack adequate research in our universities today. If the county or national Government cannot take research as the most important thing in our development, we will remain consumers. It is a high time we invested in research since we have been independent for 50 years. We should produce a number of things that other people can buy and learn from us. I think that if we keep being dependent of others, if you look at majority of the things that we are using, you will realize that we are just consuming from others. It is important for any university to do research. We have the best professors and lectures and the Standing Orders, research can only be done by well managed universities. We have private universities mushrooming everywhere; it has now become a kind of commercial enterprise. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have to be careful not to add more problems to a problem. We have to manage the private and public universities that we have because, there is a major problem. With new technology, a student does not need to go to school. He or she will just sit in the house and later ask his friends what they learnt that day and they can even send you answers while in the classroom. We are going to areas that we do not understand and with the fame that we have for corruption, I think we need to think very hard. This does not imply that this Bill should not be there or that it is not important. This Bill is only making sure that both county and national Government come together and decide what should be done in terms of considering the advancement of knowledge. That is a fact and it has to be done. It does not even require registration although nowadays everything must be registered. It is easier to handle this matter the way it should be because university education is under the national Government. However, I need to ask a question and I am happy that the Senate Majority Leader is here. In my few years in this House, we have passed several Bills – several papers like these ones because they have never been assented to – but how many have been assented to by the President? That is a big question. Sometimes you want to sit down and draft a Bill but when you look at the way things are going, you find it a problem. This does not mean that Sen. Mohamud, our colleagues and even myself should stop trying to bring in some Bills. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the amount of money that developed nations spend on education in engaging, the best professors or researchers and other things that they do shows that it is a priority. In this country, when you think about the county education system, the mentality of ethnicity creeps in all the time. I agree with my friend from Homa Bay County that if a person goes to school from nursery up to university just in the area he was born, no matter how trainable, he will still think he is inadequate when he or she mixes with others. There are good examples that I have seen. Students who are educated in the United States of America (USA) or United Kingdom (UK) do not necessarily get the best 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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