Pain for University of Nairobi students as fees double

First-year students who started reporting to Kenya’s University of Nairobi last week will pay double the fees their predecessors paid, as the institution implements its new charges, writes David Muchunguh for Nation Media Group.

Undergraduate annual tuition and administrative fees have been increased from KES28,500 (US$258) to KES59,000 for the government-sponsored students. The figure rises even further when accommodation charges, which have been increased more than seven times, are factored in. The fees have risen from between KES20 to KES30 per day, translating to KES5,460 per semester, to more than KES210 a day or KES40,320 per semester for a standard room.

The student leaders last week mobilised some of the learners and attempted to disrupt registration of first years, but the demonstration at the main gate was quickly quashed by police officers, who lobbed teargas canisters at them.
Full report on the Nation site