Do not be fooled, it is a precarious existence without a PhD in Kenyan universities

PHD graduands during Moi University 35th graduation ceremony in Eldoret where over 4000 students graduated in various courses on 21.12.2017. [PHOTO BY PETER OCHIENG/STANDARD]

Sometime back, the Commission for University Education (CUE) developed the troubling habit of issuing ‘headline grabbing’ directives to universities.

While the directives sold newspapers, most times they achieved nothing else. One prominent threat proclaimed that from 2018, only academics with PhDs will be allowed to teach in the university. Of course, this will not happen.