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Ministry of Education to audit quality of university education following students’ complains
The Cabinet Secretary for Education Amina Mohamed noted sour relationships between students and lecturers was the main cause of student unrest in universities –
The CS said the ministry will spend the year auditing university staff to unearth the quality of lectures following complains by students –
Student leaders from various universities across the country had visited the CS when they complained of poor quality of education
University students have complained of receiving poor quality education leaving them ‘half baked’ graduates.
Student leaders told Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed during a visit to her office that due to the poor standards of university education, graduates were left to toil for long before they could secure employment.
During the meeting also attended by University Education Principal Secretary Japheth Ntiba, the student leaders presented a memorandum to the CS.
Student leaders from the Universities of Nairobi, Kisii, Daystar, Kenyatta, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Machakos and Meru attended the meeting.
Also represented were students from Egerton University, Pwani University, Multimedia University, Dedan Kimathi University and Murang’a University.
Amina told MPs while appearing before the National Assembly Education committee the impending staff audit would unearth the nature of staff teaching in the universities.
“We want to know who is teaching our children. Are they qualified? And particularly we want to know who is teaching first year students,” said Amina.
“There is a lot that has gone wrong and we shall spend the whole of this year correcting university education,” the CS told MPs.
A recent report by the Commission for University Education (CUE) revealed there are only 648 full professors, 771 associate professors and 1,461 senior lecturers across all public universities.
The report also revealed local universities were not producing enough PhD graduates.
The report dubbed Transforming University Education in Africa: Lessons from Kenya, indicates that Kenyan universities require 10,000 PhD holders.