Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: 36 Wednesday, 5th December, 2012(P) Board (HELB) which is covered under a different law. The HELB is the one that sets scholarships as well as loans and bursaries for students. So, this one will not apply here, because the Commission is a regulator and not a financier. view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to say I agree that the amendment of hon. Millie has already been taken care of by the Chairman’s amendment. view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: No, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I have not seen it. I thought maybe he was amending what hon. Koech has so that we carry it on the same amendment. view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, maybe it was not clear to me exactly what the amendment would be. If it is just the word “consultation”, I would like to agree with the Chairman of the Education Committee that the charter itself is approved and since it is approved, what we are giving further is to give the private university room to be more creative and to bring anything else after the charter has been approved. In fact, it is what will stimulate their growth. We do not want to restrict them to the day they submit the charter. We want ... view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the spirit with which the Member is moving this amendment is exactly the spirit with which the clause is intended. Approval does not mean that you submit and people are going to scrutinize you. It is saying that already you have a charter and it has been approved. They might discover that universities elsewhere are more dynamic and have other governance organs that they would like to introduce for themselves. Consultation will not help them because you do not have to consult the Commission as a private investor. We are giving them room to introduce ... view
• 5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I have one comment to make. The Chairman certifies in Clause 1(d) that five members are appointed by the Cabinet Secretary through an open and competitive process. These are members of the council and open, yes, but competitive, they will not even want to apply. If you are asking a bank manager to assist you to be a member of the council and you want to interview them, they will not want to be involved yet for the council, you want lawyers, bankers and everybody to assist the universities in development. So, I would like ... view
• 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