JKUAT Kigali Campus building. Photo: The News-Times.
Following higher education reforms taking place the fate of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology is at risk.
JKUAT Kigali campus has not been meeting its intended expectations according to a recent higher education quality audit.
Due to the poor performance of the university, Higher Education Council executive director Innocent Mugisha has given the university six months or face closure.
"Suspend the delivery and further recruitment in all the programmes until such a time that the institution demonstrates the adequacy to deliver their programmes in line with the audit recommendations," said Mugisha.
The education minister for Rwanda, Musafiri Malimba said suspending the programmes is in line with protecting the quality of education in Rwanda.
"This has been done for students' sake. Better be patient than obtaining a useless degree. Those who will be able to return when the school reopens will witness remarkable reforms," said Musafiri.
Public Investments Committee wrote to JKUAT asking the university to give information on justification by the institution to invest in Rwanda and Tanzania.
The Kenya High Commissioner, John Mwangemi said he has scheduled a meeting with the leaders of the university to discuss on the matter.
Mwangemi says universities must get proper approval to operate in Rwanda and Tanzania for the, their business is to ensure that there exists a good relationship between the countries.
However, Professor Mabel Imbuga claims the audit was done before they moved into their new building and that the university has since sent six professors from Kenya to teach at the facility.
"These are the key thematic leaders and in addition to other PHD holders who are there we now have enough personnel," she said.