PREMIUM What next? Collapse of Ruto funding model fails students, varsities Three years after launch, rising debts and student hardship force government to abandon university funding model. Education Just now Listen

Article When the government introduced a new funding model for higher education in 2023, it promised to achieve two goals: ensure that no deserving student was denied access to university because of poverty and rescue public universities from a financial crisis that had pushed many to the brink.

PREMIUM Ruto makes U-turn on university funding model President announces universal higher education funding for all qualifying students.

Ms Achieng was among thousands of students who expected the student-centred funding model to ease the cost of higher education.