KU: We are shutting campuses outside Kenya

Kenyatta University acting Vice Chancellor Prof. Paul Wainaina during an interview in his KU office. ON 02/06/2017 PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE

Kenyatta University (KU) has said plans are underway to shut its Tanzania and Rwanda campuses.

Communication from the institution says the university is complying with a Government directive that requires them to close campuses set up outside the country.

"We received written instructions on the same and KU was already working on the process of closing the campus, which is still ongoing and will be completed in due course," said Paul Wainaina, the acting vice chancellor.

Prof Wainaina was reacting to the decision by Tanzania Commission for University (TCU) directing KU and Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (Jkuat) not to admit new students starting next September.

The two universities are part of the long list of 19 institutions in Tanzania barred from admitting first-year students based on the audit report.

Tanzania's commission's acting Executive Secretary Eleuther Mwangeni, in a memo posted on the institution's website, said the decision was based on an audit that revealed some irregularities affecting quality.

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