Reform varsities to make them effective and viable

Graduants during the University of Nairobi's graduation ceremony at the main campus on December 16, 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) has made wide reaching recommendations that seek to revolutionise education in the country. The proposals affect all levels of education, from the lowest to the highest. A raft of recommendations have been made for universities and from the look of things, they will leave them better off.

Some of them include downsizing, mergers of universities and the scrapping of some top managerial positions. Indeed, some of these positions contribute little, if anything, to the betterment of education in the institutions of higher learning.