Assistant lecturers have been relieved after the PhD degrees requirement was squashed off.
The Commission for University Education (CUE) had indicated that all assistant lecturers teaching in public universities should have a PhD degree to be eligible to teach.
However, the Employment and Labour Court on Wednesday ruled that this directive should be ignored since it broke various rules in coming up with it.
Giving the order, Justice Stephen Radido noted that CUE acted on their own when making this rule, and didn't involve Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu).
“Uasu was not involved in the process leading to the adoption of the harmonised criteria and guidelines for appointment and promotion of academic staff in universities in Kenya,” ruled Justice Radido as quoted by K24 Digital.
Uasu also came out calling for objection of the rule noting that it will greatly affect learning in Kenyan universities.
Through their lawyer, Titus Koceyo, Uasu noted that if this law is put into practice many lecturers will leave work, as many of them dont have PhD degrees.
In giving his ruling, Radido noted that Uasu are primary stakeholders of universities thus their take should be taken into consideration.
Uasu had moved to court to protest the directive, and also protest the fact that the Education Cabinet Secretary had called on universities to negotiate with their teaching staff on their salaries.