Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1231 to 1240 of 3046.

• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. I apologize that the written answer did not reach him. But it will reach him in one second. (a) The records at the Ministry indicate that no student from the two districts has been awarded a scholarship overseas or locally. This is mainly due to the fact that the Ministry has not received applications from qualified candidates from the two districts for consideration in the last three years. That is because those are competitive scholarships. (b) The Government has, for many years now, adopted affirmative action to increase access to university education to ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the list was not requested for. That is why I did not come with a list of those who did not merit. But if you look at the advertisements--- Currently, we are running scholarships from Japan. Japan is taking candidates with straight As. Two months ago, we were running scholarships from China. China was very categorical. It wanted ten undergraduate students with A or A-. We find that some of the students who have already--- view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for the protection. I think he needs to understand exactly the process, so that he knows the requirements. When it comes to students with A and A-, we have found out that many candidates with grade A would like to do medicine or engineering here in Kenya. So, the applications are generally lower for those kind of programmes. Some of the scholarships that we have, have been catering for masters and PhDs and so, sometimes, it is actually challenging for some regions to give those kind of candidates that we are looking for. view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Members will remember that they asked for a list of students who received scholarships sometimes back – about two years ago. The Minister brought a list of local scholarships. Since then, there has been a change of policy in the Ministry and, in fact, when I went to the docket, local scholarships will be launched under the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). So, currently, all the scholarships at the local level have been offloaded and the money transferred to HELB. It actually arose from questions that came from this House on transparency and the criteria ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we recognize that a C+ is an entry point to the university. We recognize that in the Ministry and, currently, as you saw in the Press yesterday, we have 118,000 students who got C+ and above. The JAB meeting that took place two days ago could only admit a maximum of 41,000 because of the space in the seven public universities and 14 public university colleges. The remaining will be applying for parallel programmes and in private universities. To answer what the hon. Member has asked, the Ministry is trying to expand a bit for our ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is information I am getting right now on the Floor of this House. We have always said the Japan scholarships, the Commonwealth scholarships and the Chinese scholarships should be spread as much as possible, so that every region in this country gets something. So, if we have an “A” student from an ASAL area who is ready to go for further studies, we will not hesitate. I would like to ask the hon. Member to give me that information because fairness is the rule in our Ministry. view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, he has asked the question, except that he is taking me to the other Ministry. However, I would like to assure him that we are also in discussion with the other Ministry because free primary education and free secondary education are issues that this House has passed and we hope that we can receive students coming out of secondary school from all the regions in this country with marks that can enable them to access higher education. The reason as to why we have embraced the idea of dropping the scholarships and going for the loans ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. What I was saying is that there are openings now and we are also encouraging the same from the lower basic education. Thank you. view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are all here and we are listening and writing our notes. I just wanted to confirm that we are taking notes and there will be a good response at the end of this debate. view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am holding brief for the Minister of Co-operative Development and Marketing. view