The Commission for University Education has come clear on the fate of students affected by the massive scrapping of university programmes.
The commission said it is in active negotiations with the affected universities with a view to ending the deadlock that threatens widespread student unrests.
No cause for alarm
Commission for University Education (CUE) chief executive officer Mwenda Ntarangwi said there is no need for students already taking the programmes to panic.
“We have taken care of the issues of programmes that were not approved and working with universities to iron out any lingering issues. There is no cause for alarm. We value students and don’t want them to panic,” said Prof Ntarangwi in a statement.
The Commission CEO explained that some courses were scrapped because the universities had not submitted the required documentations. As such, the scrap could be lifted if the schools avail those documents.
CUE Standards
“Some were not submitted to CUE and in others we used feedback received from universities about their capacities. We used our standards and calculated capacities for programmes against the information the universities declared,” said Prof Ntarangwi.
A report by the commission showed that a couple of bachelor’s degree courses in 26 universities have not been approved, this is as placement of students in Universities comes to an end on February 23.
The courses are among others; Bachelor of Arts in geography, political science, community development, development and policy studies and counselling psychology.
The others are Art courses are economics, Kiswahili, international relations, public administration and governance, and peace education.
Scrapped science courses include applied statistics with computing, actuarial science, botany, informatics and natural resource management.
The rest are management and information, human nutrition and dietetics, public health, and biochemistry.