Vice chancellors have said that part of what the government provides in the Ksh.36 billion is not enough as it amounts to just half of what universities need.
In this remark, the vice chancellors have now advised for the tripping of the fees for public universities in Kenya to survive as it had been earlier proposed.
According to the VCs, running public universities has become a headache due to lack of resources and despite the threats from students and legislatures, the university administrators insists to firm on their proposal.
“The cost of everything has gone up. If we’re going to run universities in a way that would make them competitive, we need to ensure that they are properly funded,” said Prof. Francis Aduol, the Chairman of the Vice Chancellor’s Committee.
“We can no longer work with the parameters of 1989 to run universities in 2019.”
“The cost of everything has gone up. If we’re going to run universities in a way that would make them competitive, we need to ensure that they are properly funded,” said Prof. Francis Aduol, the Chairman of the Vice Chancellor’s Committee.
“We can no longer work with the parameters of 1989 to run universities in 2019.”
In defending the proposal, Prof. Aduol further argued that the government has an option of covering the proposed fees in totality if the students and parents were to be laid off the burden of digging deeper into their pockets.
University students are already feeling the heat with lecturers reportedly abandoning lecture halls and, in some instances, conducting sessions halfheartedly.
The newly-proposed proposed fee structure, if approved, will see students pay an average of Ksh.48,000 per semester.
It, however, remains to be seen how the Ministry of Education will cross this bridge under a new Cabinet Secretary.