More than 1,000 students pursuing various engineering courses at Egerton University on Friday protested over Engineering Board of Kenya's (EBK) lack of accreditation of their studies.
Led by the university's students union chairman, Juma Fredrick, the students blamed the varsity for taking too long to clear the faculties with the regulator.
‘The management should fasten the clearance with the board or else we will not go to class until the issue is solved," Juma said.
On her part, the head of faculty congress, Ms Manaal Abdalla, said engineering students deserve quality education since it is costly to train in the discipline.
She lamented that they are intellectuals and deserve better treatment to avoid years of humiliation their colleagues endure at the hands of prospective employers upon completion of their six years' course.
Public universities were on Tuesday asked to stop admitting students into engineering courses before receiving approval from EBK. The EBK reckons that engineering courses offered are only accredited upon meeting five mandatory requirements, including programme design, curriculum, adequate faculty staff and training facilities as well as infrastructure, and duration of training.
Students at the university are also marshaling the entry of a radical and a practising don at the institution whom they feel will be the new broom at the institution of higher learning.