The Government of Kenya will no longer fund public universities and colleges.

This is according to the new Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu.


Machogu said that on Saturday at the Dedan Kimathi University of Science and Technology in Nyeri County where he also said the current financial strain faced by the learning institutions calls for alternative sources of income to lift some financial burden from the government.

“In Kenya, education takes about 25.9 per cent and we have to find other ways of creating and generating revenues for universities and they have to look at other revenues,” Machogu said. said.

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The CS advised the universities and colleges in the country to welcome the ideas of research, innovation and technology as an alternative means of generating individual income.

“I’m going to move around each and every university in Kenya because a number is faced with financial problems and we are encouraging that they must generate their own income because the exchequer as it is now is not going to continue funding more,” he said.


Machogu’s pronouncement comes when most public universities are experiencing upheaval following the lack of funds that has resulted in staff strikes.