State responsible for mess in universities

Kenyatta University Staff Union lecturers demonstrate on Nairobi’s streets in 2017 over an unpaid Sh10 billion Collective Bargain Agreement. [File, Standard]

The Government through the State Department of Higher Education has kicked off the process of rationalising public universities in a bid to reduce the public wage bill and improve the quality of the curriculum offered.

“Our universities have taken a path that must be redirected,” said Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha. “Every university is teaching everything and it doesn’t make sense.”