Education Cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i has called on university administrators to make prudent decisions that will enable university education retain its former glory.
Matiang’i noted that several wrong administrative decisions had been made in the past during which universities scampered for every available space to establish satellite campuses and in the process, diluted the quality of university education.
He acknowledged that the education sector in the country had been severely compromised by corrupting the examination systems and thereby giving distorted examination results. as a result, universities went out of their way to create campuses to absorb the abnormally high number of qualified students in the country.
He was speaking at Egerton University in Nakuru where he presided over the ground breaking ceremony for a multi-billion library set to be constructed at the university.
The cs noted that sobriety was slowly returning to the education sector and its impact will be felt far and wide, noting that already, several universities were closing satellite campuses in view of the dwindled student numbers.
