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    "id": 784670,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/784670/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "I was suspended from the University of Nairobi 18 years ago because of being anti the parallel degree programme. We have to rethink the training of our medical staff. At that particular time, the country had not seen what I had seen, that when you charge your work force while training them, and when you peg money to the degree that you will study in our universities... When the parallel degree programme was introduced, Ksh600,000 was the amount of money that you were required pay to study medicine in a year, while you paid only Kshs80,000 to take a Bachelor of Arts Degree. It created a scenario where a grade of C- plus money became an A and an A minus money became a C, because you studied what you could afford. Many people who were not qualified joined medical school. Why do these professional courses demand that you pass in secondary school with an A? It is because they are professions who do not entertain mistakes. If you were a pilot and you made a single mistake, it would lead to the loss of lives of everybody on board, including you. But if you are a teacher and you tell students that something is yellow while it is red, you can still correct your mistake three months later because nobody dies. For you to train as a medical doctor and a surgeon, your mistakes must be very minimal. That one is determined in school. In the parallel degree programme in our universities, it was the issue of how much you could afford. If you were training to be a doctor, could you afford Kshs600,000 per year? If you were training to be an architect, could you afford Kshs450,000? When you were pursuing other courses, then you paid Kshs80,000."
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