Mediocrity creeping into varsities, warns Prof Bethwel Ogot

 

Renown historian Prof Bethwell Allan Ogot after being accorded a honorary degree from Maasai Mara university. (Photo: Collins oduor/Standard)

Universities must focus on training high cadre employees and researchers to participate in the rapidly changing global economy, a venerated scholar has said. Prof Bethwel Ogot noted that mediocrity was creeping into universities and affecting the quality of higher education.