Although the ongoing strike does not seem to end any time soon, some few individuals are benefiting as the strike is rolling over the second month since it commenced.
It was a national lecturer’s strike that meant all lecturers in all public universities were to join the bandwagon of not going back to lecture rooms unless they are sorted out. This would paralyze learning all public universities.
However this has not been the case. As other students are languishing in the university hostels waiting for the strike to end, others are attending classes as normal.
Their lecturers move out in the streets to demonstrate to show unity and solidarity but get back to lecture rooms to discharge their mandate.
Some universities like Kisii Universities had their routine as normal. Classes were on and exams went as scheduled before the strike in the almanac of the school.
This sets them at a higher and better chance of graduating earlier than their friends in other universities.
Chuka University equally had studies going on amid the national lectures’ strike. They had their end of semester exams last week, an indication of a completion of the semester that other universities had started before the strike took effect on 21st February.
Equally, some growing universities operating with 80 percent part-time lecturers, had no point of having the university programs paralyzed.
For instance, Rongo university with approximately 80 percent of lecturers being of part-time contracts, should not have stalled their learning. Why should it halt the learning?For uniformity, those universities operating partially with part-time lecturers should go on with the learning.
Also, if the strike must stall learning almost in all universities, let there be uniformity. Let the effect be felt in all universities.