Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) has opposed the government’s plan to merge universities.
The Union on Friday filed a case seeking to bar the Ministry of Education from merging Universities across the country.
The state has revealed its plan to merge 31 public universities as it seeks to promote performance.
Through Koceyo & Company, the union filed a suit at the Labour Court in a bid to stop the process.
The new development comes at a time when the Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha is waiting for the submission of the report on the merger of the institutions from the Commission for University Education (CUE).
The union has since sued Attorney-General Kariuki Kihara and Prof Magoha over the matter. It has asked the court to stop the process with immediate effect.
“University academic staff are therefore extremely concerned that the proposed merger of public universities in Kenya is neither aligned with any national educational policy goal nor principal and is being undertaken by the Respondent unilaterally without due regard to other stakeholders,” argues the union, as quoted by Daily Nation.
It has now emerged that some of the universities in the country have already started to remove some of the courses in preparation for the merger.
The process of merging the institution has already started to elicit mixed reactions from different quarters.