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    "id": 952558,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/952558/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Musimba",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "What needs to come out in the Sessional Paper is that our top students have to be bench marked to carry out exams which are undertaken in other countries. For instance, if we have common entrance exams administered to 13 year old students, then we should have the same Cambridge exams being administered to a certain quartile of our nation to know that we have been benchmarked properly. At secondary level, the same has to happen, so that we know that we have tuition for people who are going to international universities to compete. The University of Nairobi is ranked as one of the top universities in Africa, but when it is benchmarked globally, there are gaps that exist and need to be covered. We need to go further than that. Infrastructure is not the only thing going on in education. We have had infrastructural challenges in past. People from rural areas have excelled in university in science courses yet they were disadvantaged by not having science laboratories. Now that we have ICT, we have the benefit of conducting experiments through ICT as an intervention. This will lead us to places that ensure the skill set that is here for our job market ends up being competitive and relevant."
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