Over the past three years, the mood around education has shifted significantly, thanks to the issue of funding. In 2023, a taskforce — the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms — was formed to come up with recommendations on a financing model that would sustainably support university education in Kenya.
The result of this exercise was a student-centered financing structure, which categorised them into five tiers based on their family income, and allocated varying amounts of scholarships and loans as per those bands.
