How far should a particular university go in partnerships with the private sector for its students? Kenyatta University recently signed internship partnerships with several media and blue chip companies to accord its students seamless hassle when looking for industrial attachments. In a country with limited opportunities for thousands of undergraduates leaving for industrial attachment often at the same time, isnt it discriminatory for one group of students to have a preferential treatment to other groups? What then becomes of students from UoN, Moi, JKUA, Maseno, Masinde Muliro etc without this arrangment? Or, put the other way, can all public universities have the same arrangement with the limited Kenyan companies? And remember, Kenyatta University students were used to help reorganize the lands ministry after which President Uhurus land file disappeared. Kenyatta University also served as voting/rigging/storage centre for this Jubilee government. Are we witnessing the reincarnation of Nairobi University of the 1970s and 80s? The establishment of the 2nd University in Kenya (Moi University) after the McKay Report (Presidential Working Party) hoped to avoid the intellectual ethnicization of public universities. Whenyou see regional universities filled with your people, just thank God. Not long ago, your people were nowhere, and had nothing to fill. May be, among other areas, we should thank Moi for destroying this ethnic hegemonic hold of universities when he served. Unfortunately, it is back with a bang and DP Ruto is not Moi. Chancellor Toroitich, we are under sieke. CC Prof Edward A. Oyugi.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:30:48 +0000
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