Universities in Kenya Offering Obsolete Courses- Cofek
Numerous bachelor’s degrees granted by Kenyan colleges are useless, according to a recent poll by the Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek).
Most are provided by public universities. A survey found that despite having no or few students, more than 300 courses certified by the Commission on University Education (CUE) have never or only seldom used instructors.
Additionally, it is claimed that such courses that were adopted decades ago or whose job market has since been saturated affect at least four out of ten, or 40%, of university students.
The Elimika Mashinani Trust and Cofek worked together to conduct the survey.
Between June 2 and June 15, phone interviews were conducted for this study, and the results were released on July 3.
250 graduates from 25 different countries were examined.
Eight out of every ten students participating in such courses also received no career assistance from their schools or parents.
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For these candidates, getting any “available degree” certification comes first.
Such programmes are quite expensive for the government and parents as a whole, but the market is not interested in them.
The final study states, in part, “They equally offer no skills for the graduates to choose for meaningful self-employment.”
For keeping “stale” courses on the admissions menu, 60% blame the Kenya Universities Placement Service, 30% blame the CUE, and 10% blame the students for enrolling in “any available” degree programme.
Only 20% of public colleges base their course selection on market demand, according to the poll. While at least 70% of the course offerings at private colleges are based on employability ratio.
However, when it comes to their actual industry linkages, both public and private institutions perform poorly. Less than 40% of private institutions received a passing grade, while less than 10% of state universities did.
University graduates were recently warned by Vice President Rigathi Gachagua that the government does not provide work chances.
At the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology’s commencement ceremony on June 30, Gachagua said that graduates will gain from the Housing Fund since it would create jobs.
Gachagua declared, “I am an honest man, and I don’t want to sit here and tell you lies that we have jobs for you, these jobs we are going to create together with you.”
Gachagua exhorted them to view everything with optimism.
“You are ten times better than your parents,” he continued. “Your parents were not hired by anybody, 70% of them, but by hard effort, creative and imaginative thinking they have seen you through to university.
Universities in Kenya Offering Obsolete Courses- Cofek
