MKU sheds off costly excesses, improves on academics

Technology has helped Mount Kenya University streamline academics and shed off excess part-time staff capacity that unnecessarily gobbled up resources. Using its management information system (MIS), the university cut teaching units from 7,000 to 2,700 in January, enabling it to significantly slash the number of part-time lecturers on its payroll from 2,000 to 400.

Dr Ronald Maathai, Registrar, Academic Affairs, revealed that the university did not need the thousands of part-time lecturers across its 16 campuses.