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    "id": 622010,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "The purpose of an examination is to rank. Even in medical school where we thought, we were all more or less very close to par, we were still ranked. All of us had qualified for Medical School at the University of Nairobi (UoN) but you would still find number one and the last one. This number one and the last one gave the medical school an opportunity to identify those students who would get scholarships and so on. I am glad that I am addressing a House where we have young lecturers like Sen. Murkomen who has suddenly become quiet because of the new office that he has been offered. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, ranking is good. I want to go further and insist that we should demand for ranking of our universities. We now have so many universities. If you go to Britain, they will tell you the best universities, the second tier and the worst so that when you are choosing where your child should go, especially given that today parents are starting to pay for privately sponsored students, it is important that we rank our universities so that when a child is studying at a certain university and they are paying the same amount of school fees like another university, there should be justification as opposed to where another is asking for more money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have seen certain universities where the school fees is lower for privately sponsored children than at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC). It simply means that these people are in business, they are not keen on training children, they want to levy fees as low as possible so as to fill their theatres and balance their books. The second is the issue of admission to Form One. I want to make this remark because I listened to the Senator for Kirinyaga and I was not too sure whether he was not going there. It is important that we insist that until such a time that the national Government will have stabilized all public schools so that they have an equal number of teachers and the same facilities like private schools, we should still cushion children from public schools because when you open them to competition with children from The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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