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Strategies that can move Kenya's higher education sector forward

Students during a past graduation ceremony. [File, Standard]

Kenyan universities and colleges have been in the news frequently because of the challenges that they continue to experience. The sources of these challenges are both internal and external in nature.

We have many institutions of higher learning and the population of students is equally large. There are a total of 76 universities, 46 of them public, besides training colleges. Education is a massive instrument of freedom. It gives varied capacities to students for life. Thus the importance of higher education to Kenya's future prosperity. As Nelson Mandela said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world". And it is also the greatest social equaliser.

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