Ruto’s student-centred university funding model was meant to fix higher education financing, but persistent funding shortfalls and growing university debts suggest the crisis has worsened.
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President William Ruto. [PCS]
President William Ruto inherited a university funding system in trouble. He cannot, therefore, be blamed for creating every problem in Kenya’s public universities.
But he can be held responsible for what he promised to do about them and this is where the record of his administration becomes difficult to defend.
He is burying his head in the sand as he continues to argue that the student-centred financing model has helped universities.
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