Think tank formed to rescue universities from financial woes

The Kenyan government has appointed a high-powered team of intellectuals and university administrators to come up with concrete solutions on how to get public universities out of the financial mess they are currently steeped in, a mess that threatens operations in many of them, writes David Muchunguh for Nation Media Group.

The think tank, which will be chaired by Professor Egara Kabaji, a former deputy vice-chancellor at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, will be expected to develop a funding framework that will rescue public universities from the financial depression they are in.

“Kenyan universities are in a financial crisis and cannot effectively meet their financial obligations. The crisis is not temporary instability, it is a permanent phenomenon that requires government mitigation,” Simon Nabukwesi, the principal secretary for university education and research said in his appointment letter.
Full report on the Nation Media Group site