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.
The facts tell a different story. The funding is falling short of the requirement and even the debts in universities continue to grow.
Ruto came to power promising to reform a broken higher education financing system.
His administration scrapped the old funding arrangement and introduced the Student-Centred Funding Model in 2023, selling it as a fairer and more sustainable way of financing university education.
It was supposed to be the solution, but four years later, the universities are still broke.