Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I looked at the amendment by the hon. Member; by deleting the word “titular”, we will be mixing up the roles of the chancellor, the university management and the university council. “Titular” in the Oxford Advanced Dictionary has the following meaning:- “It is having a particular title or status but no real power or authority” view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: 42 Wednesday, 5th December, 2012(P) This Bill in one of the sections gives power to the chancellor. It is important that we have our chancellors as titular, and this is how it is the world over. It is meant to avoid the temptation of a chancellor getting into the governance of the universities or getting into the management of the universities, which is very dangerous. In this country, for a very long time, the Chancellor was the President. It was in 2005 when the current President decided to give up that role. view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: The reason a chancellor is titular is to enable that powerful or prominent Kenyan to do the functions that have been outlined in sub-clause (3), that is to be the head of the university and in the name of the university confer degrees and grant diplomas, certificates and other university awards. The chancellor may also from time to time recommend to the Cabinet Secretary in the case of a public university, and the board of trustees in the case of private university, a visitation of the university. That is, if there is a problem in the university and they realize ... view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: The same chancellor may from time to time give advice to the council which the chancellor considers necessary for the betterment of the university. This enables a Chancellor, who feels that there is need to improve the university in a certain way, to give that advice. The danger in removing titular will be that it will mean that we are allowing the position of the chancellor to be used beyond these set duties that they have been given. We would like the respect of the chancellor to be maintained. We want the honour that is normally given to the chancellor ... view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, as I explained earlier on, the role of the chancellor was first handed over by the current President. We now have very many chancellors. The role of the Cabinet Secretary is absolutely nothing but gazettement. In fact, for the vice-chancellor, there is competitive sourcing by the councils themselves. So, there is no role on appointment by the Cabinet Secretary except to gazette what has been recommended. That is what is going on currently for both principals of colleges and vice-chancellors. Therefore, they are not appointees of the Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary sieves the competitive ... view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, let me as a matter of persuasion say that the freedom or the autonomy that the universities have received in the recent past, after the chancellors were nominated rather than have the President, is very good that we do not want to go back on it. The competitive way of sourcing vice-chancellors is one of the best things that ever happened to the universities and I want to confirm that it is not the Cabinet Secretary who appoints. The Cabinet Secretary’s role is to gazette because he is the head of the sector. So, this ... view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the first one is elected by student’s body as provided by the charter. The intention of that is that the universities will articulate in the charter how the student’s body is formed; once that has been formed then. I am accepting what hon. Odhiambo- Mabona has given in “d” because a student’s association can have a council that will steer it. In Clause 1, we are establishing the students’ association. We are saying the association must be elected--- view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Sorry, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir; I would like to accept that amendment. The body itself is not being elected. It is the council that is going to be elected. So, thank you. I would like to accept the amendment that we delete “elected” because the students’ body will be established as per the charter and that is it. view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, very okay--- view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: I want to agree but I want to insert an additional two words at the end of the new subclause 2, “Every university shall have a students’ council, elected by the students’ association and no more than one-third of the council shall be of the same gender, where applicable”. I am saying this because we have one university that is purely female and we see United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) spreading the same message that we should have female only universities. So, I want to add the words “where applicable” I think that is okay. view