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University funding models raise concerns about policy experimentation.[Courtesy]
Kenya has discovered a fascinating way of running higher education: change the funding model whenever the previous one becomes inconvenient, then explain the new one with the confidence of a government that has just invented education.
The latest proposal, announced by Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba, moves away from assessing parents' financial circumstances under the Student-Centred Funding Model and introduces the Universal Student Funding Model, supposedly focused on investing directly in students' professional futures.
It sounds wonderful. Almost poetic.
