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Opinion:How frenzied mercantile culture nearly destroyed our universities

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A few days ago, Commission for University Education (CUE) Chairman Prof Chacha Nyaigoti Chacha decried the deplorable state of physical environment in public universities.

 Curiously, he compared the sorry state to prisons, arguing that such an environment had far-reaching consequences, not only on the quality of higher learning, but also on the mental state of university students long after graduation.

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