Kenya’s university reforms are silent on government funding, which is the major source of their current financial challenges.
- Professor of Research, Foundations & Higher Education, Northern Arizona University
As the professor class has shrunk, so has the number of PhD graduates.
Magoha’s impact is unmistakable in higher education, basic education, and in national examinations in Kenya.
Kibaki’s goals were to expand access to education, and to make universities more efficient and self-sustaining.
Universities will need strategies that can defuse constant disruption of learning due to student protest.
What Kenya should focus on is providing in-service professional development to improve student learning outcomes.
The government should stop trying to tinker at the edges. Instead it should strengthen internal university administration through shared governance.
The current threat to university autonomy has been triggered by a myriad of financial and administrative challenges
The commercialisation of universities in Kenya poses a serious threat to academic freedom.
Kenya’s once financially healthy universities are in financial straits.
Staff wages are a huge challenge facing the survival of Kenya’s public universities, but strikes are another.
Kenya has moved to phase out part-time lecturers in a bid to improve the quality of university education.
Kenya’s university budgets are a closed book – and this lack of transparency is bad for institutions and the country as a whole.
Kenya’s authorities are trying to deal with declining standards at the country’s public and private universities. This will require a strengthened regulatory framework and hard work from institutions.
Kenya’s universities have become hotbeds of ethnic tension and conflict. This has affected everything from staff appointments to broader institutional governance.
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