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    "id": 742269,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W Chege",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "THAT, the Bill be amended in the Schedule in the proposed amendments to the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Act by — (a) deleting the proposed amendment to section 2; (b) deleting the proposed amendment to section 52; and, (c) deleting the proposed amendment to section 58. These proposed amendments are not of a miscellaneous nature and the Committee does not support them. They have a very significant effect upon the very existent of the TVET Authority and Kenya Universities and College Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) which was established by clipping its admission powers. Hon. Members, as you are all aware, as provided in the Universities Act, KUCCPS admits Government-sponsored students to public universities and colleges and to which proposal it would mean that this function would be taken away from KUCCPS and vested in the individual public colleges. We would be going back to where we started and the spirit of the amendment of the Universities Act 2012 would have been lost. The establishment of KUCCPS brought sanity in matters of admission of our students by offering a central placement service and curbing unscrupulous and unfair dealings by colleges during admissions. This amendment would have an adverse effect on the admission criteria of public colleges and universities. It is, therefore, important to know that these are institutions of public nature and they receive funding from the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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