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Universities may no longer offer diploma and certificate courses

The Universities Act of 2014 forbade universities from offering courses that are supposed to be taught at technical colleges.

Speaking during the launch of a policy brief on “graduate employability” in sub-Saharan Africa at Kenyatta University in October 2014, then Education Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, had said that, “It is sad that universities are scrambling to offer training in certificate and diploma courses, yet they are supposed to be higher education institutions.”

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