Ruto Announces Changes to University Funding System
President William Ruto has on Sunday April 30, 2023 announced about changing the ways of funding Universities, Colleges and Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVETs) colleges.
While attending a church service in West Pokot, the president mentioned that instead of the government issuing Collective grants to universities and colleges it would rather disburse finds based on the number of students in an institution.
Scholarships
Furthermore, the president hinted that plans were underway in moving away from grants to universities to issuing scholarships to those students who merit.
“We are unveiling a new system of funding higher learning Institutions. Instead of issuing grants to colleges, we will issue scholarships for every student,” he declared.
The president said this is a remedy that will will see universities afflicted with financial crisis regain their lost hope. This is set to take effect from Monday 1, May 2023.
“Many institutions suffered because they have been grossly underfunded. In our budget, we have reorganized the funding so that it reflects the need of every college and every student,” noted the president.
Ruto said the decision was arrived at after consultations with the Education Stakeholders and Vice Chancellors of universities.
“The new funding mechanism is going to rescue our institutions of higher learning and put them on a proper funding trajectory that will make our university education more responsive,” Ruto explained.
While at the church in west Pokot, the president promised to resuscitate the university that is located in that region adding that its recommended that every county should at least have one institution of higher learning.
Accompanied my the National Assembly Speaker, Moses Wetang’ula, he urged the locals to allow their children to go to school for a better future.
The speaker explained that this move would help eradicate the banditry activities that have ravaged the region for many years.
University Debt
A report released, disclosed that universities as of May 2023, they owed their staff and government agencies about sh56 billion where Kenyatta University (KU) and Nairobi University (UoN) topped the list.
Due to this debt, a number of universities had to shut down their satellite campuses and layed-off its staff due to the financial crisis.
Military Base
The president promised the locals that he is going to establish a military base in the region to aid fight banditry activities in the region.
“We have bought them graders to come and open the roads, sink boreholes and build dams so that this region can benefit from development just like others in the country,” Ruto stated.
Ruto Announces Changes to University Funding System
The PS in of education when ..employed 100 youth from one tribe at Kenyatta university and locals are just smoking bang in our village .What a scam from our leaders.