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    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": "for students and if the students do not have enough access to education. To me, this is very important. The final point I want to make is that education does not mean that when you go to university, you must get a job. There is self-employment. I know it is very difficult to be self- employed, but we still need to highlight that it is key. That is what we see in other countries. I was in a Masters class in UK with an old woman. She was over 60 and she was doing a Masters degree. When we asked her: “Why are you going to school so late in life?” She said she needs education. Who says she needs a job? She did not think of a job at that time. She simply said she wanted education. That taught me that when you get education up to a certain level; you may not be looking for a job after that. You may just want to be well-informed and well-educated; somebody who wants to be a properly-informed individual in the society. That was the way she argued. I was convinced by what she told us. I see a situation where we go to school and there are no jobs. But going to school in itself is a good thing even if you have no job because it opens up your mind. You become well-informed. You can be self-employed. You can do something useful. So, even if universities may be offering certain courses that are not useful, remember that we still need information in those areas. I have been a lecturer in a university and one of the arguments we had during that time was that certain courses must be removed; that they do not need to be there at all because they are not beneficial to anybody. They were never removed at the end of the day. It was realised that we still need to learn certain things that are old-fashioned or that are not modern, but they are necessary because they open up our minds. So, I want to support this Motion because it will address the issue of everybody having an opportunity to go to school. 100 per cent transition may seem ambitious at this point in time but there is nothing wrong with putting it in place so that we can start moving towards achieving it."
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