University bosses to meet over funding crisis that's put them in Sh56bn debt

University students camp and take selfies outside the National Treasury during a peaceful demonstration to push for immediate release of HELB funds on February 3, 2023. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

The funding crisis in universities that has pushed them into a Sh56 billion debt hole is the subject of a high-level conference to be held in Mombasa on Thursday next week

Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu is scheduled to open the first bi-annual Kenya Universities Funding Conference which will bring together all vice-chancellors of public and private universities, principals of constituent colleges, and government agencies involved in funding higher learning institutions.