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    "id": 945935,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/945935/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
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        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to also contribute to this very important Motion. I will take as short time as possible. As a nation, we are saying we have already begun with 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary school. It is logical that we must also think on how we can ensure 100 per cent transition from secondary to university. However, this dream comes with a lot of challenges. One is about the capacity of our universities and colleges to absorb the students. Currently, the universities are running below their budgets. So, as a nation, we must think of how to ensure there is enough space for the students who will have transited to join universities and colleges. We also know that a number of middle level colleges all the way from the village polytechnics are ill equipped. So, we must look beyond the number of people who are going to transit to the next level. We must think as a nation on how to increase the budget for infrastructure. This is a more serious issue because we know as a nation we are already operating below par. The other thing that is crucial for this transition is about human capacity. For instance, we know the middle level colleges and the teacher training colleges, the P1 teachers who used to be trained, have been phased out. We are now moving towards diploma teachers colleges. Are we, as a nation, prepared? Do we have enough human resources to be able to run the diploma course for the teacher training colleges? It is a question of trying to put ourselves in a position as a nation, so that we do not have to deal with a crisis when the students who have joined secondary schools want to join university. We must also think about our policy of funding education. We know we have very many options for funding education, but none of those options are adequate enough to support a single child. Beginning from HELB coming all the way to the bursaries at the constituency and the county level, we must think about how we expand the funding or what do we do at the university to ensure that students are not going to be denied access because they do not have funds? This Motion prepares us to begin rolling our heads on how best we can ensure that those students who desire to go to university and also to middle level colleges are not disappointed because, as a House, we have not provided proper legislation. We must think about expansion and how they transition. It can also be translated as within the chain in terms of recruiting those people as they finish colleges so that we can create more demand for the same education, but also a market for those who proceed beyond university. We have very many Kenyans who are disappointed because they do not have the opportunity to join university and other colleges. I am sure we are going to think about policies that reduce dropouts and students refusing to take certain courses and, therefore, opt not to proceed. I thank the Mover of this Motion. It is the right direction to prepare this nation not to be caught unawares when the numbers from Form IV, which now stand at 89 per cent, transit to university. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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