A number of universities are introducing irrelevant degrees. There is already a surplus of Arts graduates. We don't need anymore. In Nairobi, student riots, which paralyse its central business district, are already a regular occurrence. A degree programme costs Ksh120,000 or 1,760 dollars a year.
Fees are a means of increasing university funding.
But things have not worked out as Saint envisaged. This is because of the mode of funding. The more students an institution accepts, the more money the government grants, regardless of whether it can deliver the services its ''clients'' are paying for. As a result students increasingly feel cheated. They hate each other,'' says one anonymous student.