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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not the case that all students who go for parallel degree programmes are actually poor students. In fact, now many rich students are going into those programmes and this introduces a complication that it is not as straightforward as we think; that a lot of the students who are going for parallel degree programmes are those who come from disadvantaged schools who are not able to get to university because of their backgrounds. There are many rich kids from rich families who come from top schools and join parallel degree programmes because they accelerate their completion of a degree rather than wait for two years. They join a parallel degree programme in two years before the others because your parents are able to put you in medicine or in law. Even if you have an “A” grade, instead of waiting, you can accelerate the process by getting enrolled earlier than the others. So, there are many rich students who are able to enroll in this programme and, therefore, to say that you reduce the costs even for those who can afford and are deliberately doing so and are actually accelerating the process of getting a university degree, would be unequal in its own way."
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