Learning to resume as lecturers sign new Sh6 billion deal to call off strike

Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) Secretary General Constatine Wasonga (left) and Inter-Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum chairman Paul Kanyari (centre) during the signing a deal that ended the lecturers’ strike in Nairobi yesterday. [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/STANDARD]

Learning is expected to resume in all public universities this morning after lectures accepted Sh6 billion the Government offered them and called off their strike.

The award, contained in the 2013-2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement that was signed yesterday, will see the highest paid academic staff, a professor, take home Sh247,925 per month up from Sh211,000. A graduate assistant will be paid Sh77,550 up from Sh66,000.