A MUST READ FOR ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN KENYA Jobs: Valueless degrees leave graduates exposed to rejection On the face of it, Kenyaâs university education system appears robust in terms of access but hard questions are emerging as to whether most of the degrees are a good investment. Dr Carol Bidemi, an expert on higher education in East Africa, says the problem started in 2000 when the government under the instigation of the World Bank embraced commercialisation and entrepreneurial spirit as the engine to drive university education. n perfect competition, public universities debunked their original missions as centres of excellence in specific areas and moved headlong to duplicate degrees of one another and also created new ones, popularly dubbed as market demand-driven degree courses. The outcome was fabrication of new soft degree courses in tourism, hospitality, event and convention management, environmental studies, counselling, recreation and leisure management, community resource management, sports management, entrepreneurship, project planning, small-scale business management, disaster management and peace studies among others. In effect, the banality in which public universities have created new degrees in the last 10 years is almost a scandal in higher education as it is almost impossible to distinguish offerings of elite public universities and academic garages.Whereas some of those programmes could have been studied as course units in traditional degree formats, they are currently offered as stand alone degree courses. Nonetheless, apart from having fancy names, some of them are shell degrees that do not attract employers.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:37:30 +0000
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