Poor quality of varsity education slows EAC growth

KIM chief executive officer David Muturi with Prof. Mondo Kagonyera of Makerere University during the opening of the International Conference on Industry and Higher Education in Nairobi. Photo/FILE

Poor quality of university education in the East African Community (EAC) is eating away the region’s skills base, adding a fresh layer of challenge to the bloc’s quest for faster growth and realising dream of integration.

Educationists are warning that mushrooming universities and their uncontrolled expansion in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi was diluting content.

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