Crisis Meeting Over Fake Degree Courses

Ministry of Education’s top officials yesterday held crisis meetings to find a solution to the controversy over rejection of unapproved courses in universities.

Reports established that the Commission for University Education (CUE), which approves all academic programmes found it hard to explain why it rejected more than 130 programmes that has caused panic.

It is understood that CUE officials sought to explain the mess in a morning meeting, chaired by Higher Education Principal Secretary Collette Suda at Jogoo House.

Immediately after the highly-charged meeting, CUE chairperson Chacha Nyaigoti held a another crisis meeting at his office.

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A press conference that was called by CUE was later called off citing the magnitude of the crisis meeting.

“We have had a board meeting and proceedings are still being prepared. I will engage you after confirming the resolutions,” said Prof Chacha at the commission’s boardroom.

He continued,“we will engage you in the course of time. Just be on standby. We have an unfinished business that we need to clarify formally and in a nutshell, this means our press conference as earlier planned is not taking place.”

Sources revealed that most of the unapproved programmes were courses inherited from mother universities by constituent colleges.

Finer details show that the mother colleges ought to have submitted minutes of Senate’s approval of transfer of the programmes to the constituent colleges. This did not happen in most of the cases, according to reports.

This comes a day after the CUE rejected courses offered by the universities that are no approved.

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