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    "id": 686522,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/686522/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity. Let me add my voice to this Bill which has come at the right time to help bring clarity in the law. It clarifies the mandate of the Commission for University Education (CUE) in terms of accreditation of universities and approval of academic programmes. We are concerned about the mushrooming of universities in this country. Universities with inadequate facilities have mushroomed everywhere. Most of them lack infrastructure, especially in the practical programmes like medicine and engineering. With this Bill, we hope that sanity will be restored. It is good to have many universities, but we must be careful because we will compromise quality. A university’s job is to create knowledge and distribute that knowledge. They must have adequate facilities to be able to do that. Over the years, we have killed our diploma colleges and converted them into universities. It is time we had diploma colleges where we can train professionals. In terms of funding, we have parallel and regular students. I urge that we also fund those who are on parallel programmes."
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