Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Our universities today do not focus on science and technology. In fact, they focus on liberal subjects. It is only yesterday in a meeting being held at Kenyatta University, where all vice-chancellors and chairmen of university councils met - and are still meeting today - agreed that 80 per cent of the courses offered in our universities are on pure liberal subjects specifically on business education. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I can tell you for free that unless we embrace science and technology, this country will remain a developing country for years to come. This Bill is trying to cure some of those problems, particularly by giving the Commission on University Education (CUE) a big mandate to vet the type of programmes that our universities give or allow to be taught in our universities. It also gives very serious conditions for accreditation because quite a number of universities have been accredited on very dubious conditions. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: It also gives the Commission for University Education a chance to revoke some of the charters that have been issued where some universities have had charters issued to them, but they are not doing what the charter requires them to. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The other issue this Bill is addressing is that of university statutes or regulations. Most of the universities come up with their own statutes and regulations, and some of those statutes and regulations are a source of conflict and are a source of many controversies in the universities. So, it is important that some of those statutes and regulations are vetted by the CS in charge of Education, Science and Technology. They must be gazetted so that everybody is informed on what they are. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The other issue this Bill is trying to address is the appointment of vice-chancellors in our universities. As most of my colleagues have already alluded to, most of our universities have become village universities. Where you find a university is in the village, the vice-chancellor comes from that village, the lecturers come from that village, the workers come from that village and everything is village. The word “university” comes from the word “universal”. Universities are supposed to be universal where education is the bedrock but, some of our universities are no longer universal. They have become village. We must address ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: are admitted to the wrong courses. Sometimes, they have no leeway to change. More students go to university to do courses that they do not like. After they finish, they come out and want to do something else. If you go to the countryside, you will find so many people who have degrees, but are doing things contrary to what they did at the university. It is important that we look at the university academic programmes. We must focus on science and technology. Otherwise, if we focus on liberal subjects, we will continue to suffer for a long time. The ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Bill. I want to thank my good friend Hon. Aghostinho Neto for tabling this Bill. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the President realised the importance of this Bill and assented to it. It became law but unfortunately, the CS given the mandate to gazette it to be operational has been sleeping on the job for three years. This is very sad and the CS deserves to be reprimanded by the President. This Act is of great importance to this country. NGOs and civil societies have played major roles in the development of this country ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: bring money in excess of Kshs100 billion to this country which is pumped into rural areas where Government programmes have never been implemented. This Act should have been implemented immediately. This Act is extremely innovative unlike the NGO Act it is replacing. The NGO Act has very many controversies and contradictions. That is why this Bill was enacted into law but unfortunately it has not been operationalised. Among innovative parts of this Bill is on access to information. Article 35 of the Constitution states that the public must have access to information. Since NGOs which we are now changing to ... view