Bite the bullet on public university fees review

The University Funding Board (UFB) is proposing a review of the State higher education financing model to have students from the relatively well-to-do families pay more in out-of-pocket tuition fees at public universities.

UFB reckons that pegging State allocations on income status will help ease the perennial cash crunch at Kenya’s more than 30 public universities. It is unlikely that this will be an easy decision to make for the education bureaucrats going by their past reluctance to implement the differentiated unit cost (DUC) model.