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Kenya: Higher education capture by the elite hurting quality of learning and grade

Lecturers protest to demand pay increment. They are demanding Sh20 billion but the government has only offered Sh10 billion. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

The government’s own instigated audit on universities has exposed a foul-smelling can of worms that nearly choked Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i.

But in his wisdom or just fear, Dr Matiang’i has decided that the content of the audit report is too much for public consumption, especially when probably the General Election is six months away. However, no matter what the government intends to do now with the report, the rot in the universities is almost beyond repair, as it has unmasked massive scale of elite capture.

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