The Commission for University Education (CUE) has defended itself for listing 133 courses in 26 universities across the country as useless.
The commission has now given reasons behind the listing of the course amid a storm in the education sector.
According to the Commission Chief Executive Officer Mwenda Ntarangwi, some of the universities listed do not have adequate facilities to support the courses as outlined on its website.
The Commission notes that it requires a university to have at least two lecture rooms for the course to be approved for a period of four years.
The commission also said that some of the institutions were yet to file minutes of the Senate meeting to enable it to approve the courses.
The commission also said that the parent universities have up to four years to nurture its constituent campuses before they can offer certain courses.
It emerged that some of the universities had split courses hence making them thinner than expected. It now wants the split courses to be merged before they can be approved.
"Some universities with unapproved but running programmes have been directed to commit themselves in writing to have the programmes accredited,” said Ntarangwi, as quoted by Standard.
The listing has brought learning in some institutions to a standstill as students wait for clarification from the commission.