MKU Newsletter 3rd Edition, January 2017

Abstract

The placement of the first batch of Government-sponsored students in private universities since independence marks a major milestone in Kenya’s higher education sector.Mount Kenya University (MKU) attracted the highest number of applications and admitted the bulk of the sponsored students in its September 2016 intake. MKU took in 1,126 (or more than 10 percent) of the 10,000 students sponsored by the Government. In an interview, MKU Vice Chancellor, Prof Stanley W. Waudo, described this as a move in the right direction for the country. “These private universities based in the country train Kenyan students,” he said. “The institutions were established in accordance with the processes and procedures laid out in the Universities Act 2012, which recognises all universities and subjects them to the same quality standards