Degrees of debt: Ruto's new varsity funding plan to drown students in debts

Documents and submissions from the Ministry of Education to the National Assembly Education Committee reveal that the government plans to abandon the scholarship component of university funding and instead channel the money into student loans, effectively transferring the cost of higher education to students.

Education CS Julius Ogamba flanked by Higher Learning PS Beatrice Inyangala (right) and PS for TVETs Esther Muoria when he appeared before National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee on Governance and Education, yesterday.

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