250,000 students at risk as university funding model crumbles

Moi University in Eldoret. Universities have not received funding since October after the High Court temporarily suspended the funding funding model. [File, Standard]

About 250,000 university students under government sponsorship are staring at an uncertain future after the High Court dealt a major blow to the new funding model.

The decision, declaring the model illegal and unconstitutional, now poses a fresh headache to universities, administrators and the Ministry of Education as they scamper to find funding alternatives for two cohorts of students under the model when the institutions reopen in January.