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Wild expansion, rash policies to blame for crises in universities

A past graduation ceremony. [File,Standard]

A story appearing in the Standard last Wednesday titled “Varsities face closure over debts” speaks volume about the crisis in university education in Kenya, and public institutions in particular.

The crisis is caused by misplaced policies (or no policy at all) and massification or unmanaged university education expansion in the last decade. 

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