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Varsities' reprieve as professional bodies lose course approval rights

President William Ruto reviews an interim report by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform at State House, Nairobi. [PCS]

Professional bodies in the country will be stripped of the power to accredit degree programmes in universities if proposals by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms are adopted.

Under the proposed reforms, the laws granting professional bodies power to accredit university courses along their profession will be revoked and that mandate given to the Commission for University Education (CUE).

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