Who's to blame for stand-off on courses?

The stand-off pitting universities offering professional courses such as medicine, engineering and law against their respective regulators has caused a lot of panic among students.

Universities have been forced to close down the affected faculties. Who is sleeping on the job? Is it the Commission for University Education (CUE), the universities or the regulator?

Why should CUE approve programmes without consulting with the regulator? Why should universities admit students to programmes that they know too well they (students) are not going to practice?

Who is supposed to accredit university programmes. Is it the regulator, if so, what is the role of CUE? These are very hard questions on everyone’s mind but unfortunately no one appears to have the answers.

Currently, engineering students of the Technical University of Kenya and Egerton University are at home clueless of when they will resume studies.

Council for Legal Education also forced the closure of Moi University’s School of Law and stopped Mombasa and Kisumu campuses of the University of Nairobi from offering legal education.

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As all this is happening, the Government is silent as if nothing is going on.