In the recent past, there have been growing calls from national and regional leaders that technical subjects as Engineering, Medicine, Information and Communication studies to be promoted more than the Arts and Humanities.
That Social Arts and other 'lesser' should come after the technical courses is polite call that something somewhere is totally wrong in our education systems.
During a recent function at a faith based university in Garissa, Governor Nathif Jama was quoted saying that a special kitty for technical courses should be established for the institutions of higher learning.
Indicating the specifications of which courses should or should not be supported merely reveals that some are just 'useless' and so need to be neglected.
However, this does not mean that supporting the technical courses is misguided but all courses should be equally supported so as to boost the learning esteem of students pursuing the 'lesser' courses.
What can never be refuted is the fact that each and every course is important at its own level. For instance, English and Kiswahili courses are under the classes of humanities and social sciences and apparently, they make part of compulsory teaching subjects in our primary and secondary schools.
Therefore, to avoid selective funding or support, all courses should be funded proportionally without due favoritism.