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MPs push for merging university kitties to provide free education

A group of Egerton students who deferred last year's September-December semester after they failed to raise school fees. [Courtesy]

Reforms in university education began in earnest yesterday with Parliament calling for consolidation of bursaries and funds to make tertiary free.

And to remedy the injustice meted out to needy students through the newly introduced University Funding Model, MPs agitated for the merging of all education kitties including the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) fund, the Universities Fund and bursaries dispensed by governors, MPs, MCAs and even woman representatives.

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