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    "content": "academies, they miss out at the university, national schools and other lucrative training institutions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, I want to speak to the issue of the cost of paying school fees at the university. At the university, we have the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) which is doing a good job. With KUCCPS admissions, education is reasonably affordable. However, the children who qualify for this are usually children who got grades A, A-, B+ and B. But children who get grades B-, C+ and C are still qualified for university but they have a challenge of paying school fees. Now that an attempt is being made by the national Government through the National Assembly to streamline the former Constituency Development Fund (CDF) because it has now been reserved for only national projects, I propose that 50 per cent of the money in the new look CDF be reserved for bursaries for children who have qualified for university but have not qualified to benefit from HELB. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, changing society is through educating people. That is why you will find a son of a chang’aa brewer from Ikolomani will later on come and sit on the same table with a child who schooled at St. Marys’ School in Nairobi. Education is a social equalizer. More importantly, we have difficult areas in this country. We have areas in Turkana. You go to Chalbi Desert, for example, how can a child from there compete with a child who goes to schools in Nairobi and be able to be number one? It is completely out of this world. So, through these funds that have been made available through the new look CDF, we need to go for those children so that Kenya can be a Kenya of not just young people but young educated people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was giving a speech to students at Moi University three Fridays ago. One thing that I went to provoke the children with was that what is becoming of Kenya today. The pride and premium that we had put on education - thanks to the guidance that we got from elder graduates like Sen. Wetangula and so on – is gone. Now, no child in the university is taking pride in academic excellence. Instead, they are saying that they want to finish university quickly and go make money. I can see another young lecturer Sen. Melly is here. They would like to change and go back to the original honorable way of approaching success in life such that young people do not rush to complete school and go and make money but they should go and earn money. To earn money means that you can go in the law firm of Orengo & Co Advocates--- With those few remarks, I support."
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