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    "id": 686470,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/686470/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "First and foremost, it is good because we are having cases like Clause 8 of this Act where we need to make an amendment. We have so many of the so-called universities out there. In the opinion of the Commission for University Education, they have charters. We are allowing the President to revoke some of those charters because they are not relevant. We do not want to go to where we were in the 1970s. You remember most of our good young men and women went to India with very poor qualifications. When they came back, they were irrelevant in our own case. We have so many universities that are coming up. With all due respect, some of them are just business institutions. Their programmes are not those you will expect to help our nation. We are saying those universities must be looked into very seriously. For one to be given the green light and the accreditation, we expect the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, together with the Commission for University Education, to say: “Yes, this meets the requirement of this Bill and this one does not.” In other words, we expect some of them not to be deregistered because they are not relevant. We want standards of higher education that can be accepted. I have heard cases where a whole student who has gone through the 8-4-4 System of Education and spent five or four years in the universities cannot be employed when he comes out and you take him to the market place. It is because he does not know anything. I know many of them. I am sure my colleagues have met cases like that. I have seen a case of a student who has finished university, has been on the streets for about five or two years and is asking for a job and yet, he cannot even prepare a simple Curriculum Vitae (CV). When he brings it, it has a lot of mistakes both in spelling and things those. He says he has come out of university and he is a student. Of course, there are those who come out and are very serious, but you will find that whatever the qualifications they have are not geared to the realities on the ground. You will find some who have done finance but if taken to a bank, you wonder why he did not do accounting as"
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