The Daily Nation of 17th January 2024 has reported that the Kenya public universities are struggling to remain afloat after the salaries, wages, retirement benefits and medial cover premiums jumped by a fifth to hit Ksh. 45.33 billion in last year. The total pending bills in the 42 public universities and university colleges swelled byContinue reading “Way forward for broke universities”
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Properly remunerate university lecturers/researchers to achieve positive socio-economic development in Kenya
News that lecturers at my alma mater, Egerton university will be commencing their strike on 1st January 2024 over failure to honour the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is worrying because other lecturers and researchers at the public universities have such challenges, an issue which needs to be addressed once and for all. Universities are facedContinue reading “Properly remunerate university lecturers/researchers to achieve positive socio-economic development in Kenya”