Govt denies hiking varsity fees, says students paying as low as Sh5,000

PS for Higher Education Beatrice Inyangala before the Senate's Education Committee on the matter of the new university funding model at Bunge Towers, Parliament, Nairobi. March 20th, 2025. (Elvis Ogina, Standard)

The government has dismissed allegations that it has increased university school fees, maintaining that it has reduced varsity fees to lower the cost of higher education.

Speaking in Malava Constituency, Principal Secretary for the State Department of Higher Education, Dr Beatrice Inyangala dismissed rumours and confusion going round that the government has increased school fees, insisting that the lowest school fee will be Sh5,000 and Sh75,000 as the highest amount per semester.