The Commission for University Education (CUE) has censured Daystar University after an inspection report found varsity is plagued by outdated courses, poor governance and academic staff quality issues.
CUE has ordered the university to conduct regular reviews of its programmes as provided for its curriculum review policy. The university management is also to comply with universities standards in relation to full time and part time academic ratio.
It has been found out that the university has only one professor and nine other associate professors. There is no evidence that the university has been doing curriculum review. The university is also on the spot for having a Bachelor of Law degree programme that has not been enrolled into.
“The curriculum is also outdated as it is of the year 2006, therefore not relevant to the market. The Communication and Performing Arts academic programme has inadequate and outdated facilities. Core courses books in the library are outdated. Teaching in music is very restricted as there are no adequate resources like music instruments. Music programme has manly part-time lecturers. There is no music studio and students are required to travel at their own cost to studios in Westlands,” extract from the report.
On further investigation, the commission also established that the Computer Science equipment have been outdated and slow, and that concerns raised by students are not responded to.