The Commission for University Education has also recommended a forensic financial audit of Kenya Methodist University (KeMU) and Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in a report to acting Education secretary Fred Matiang’i dated Monday.
The Commission for University Education has recommended the revocation of the letter of interim authority issued to Presbyterian University of East Africa (PUEA).
The regulator has also recommended a forensic financial audit of Kenya Methodist University (KeMU) and Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in a report to acting Education secretary Fred Matiang’i dated Monday.
The agency has also proposed that CUEA and KeMU be given a year to restructure their operations and get a sound financial footing failure to which their charters should be revoked.
The fate of Presbyterian University of East Africa, which received its letter of interim authority in 2007 now hangs in the hands of Dr Matiang’i.
Besides struggling with cash flow problems, the regulator flagged university due to poor facilities and inadequate teaching staff.
If Dr Matiang’i approves the recommendation and gazettes it, the Presbyterian University will start winding up its activities.
However, the CUE will have a responsibility to ensure that students at the university complete their studies or are transferred to other institutions.
The commission also recommended that Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service should stop placing government-sponsored students in the three universities.
The report which was compiled last year pointed out a conflict of interest between the church and the universities and gave them three months to address the issue.
“KeMU whose workforce, both academic and administrative, reported being intimidated and having no promotion and no voice because they were not unionised,” states the report which wants the issues addressed in three months.
It goes on: “That CUEA, PUEA and KeMU stop engaging the service of consultants particularly in the governance of the institutions.
“The consultants reflect a creation of a new governance organ that has no legal basis and whose costs are sinking the institutions into further debts.
“Further, KeMU was advised by its consultant to take a loan of Sh6 billion from a funding company in China but from its financial status, as observed in the inspection, showed it cannot manage to pay back the loan.”
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