We are in that season again when many public universities in Kenya are being closed due to student and staff unrest. The causes of the strikes are many and looking at some of them, strikes would have been avoided if there was a grievance-articulation platform for students and lecturers.
Maurice N. Amutabi
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From 2018, the Commission for University Education (CUE) in Kenya has made it clear that only PhD holders will be employed as lecturers at universities. It has been stated that all those without PhDs will enter as tutorial fellows, and not assistant lecturers.
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Universities are public entities and should never bear the name of an ethnic group. Similarly, counties belong to all Kenyans according to Kenya’s constitution and should therefore not bear the name of any single ethnic group, given that no county in Kenya is inhabited by a single ethnicity.