The now popular Education Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i has turned his torches on both private and public universities promising to stimulate the tertiary curriculum and churn out nonprofessionals rather than professional first-class honors.
Speaking during an exclusive interview with Citizen TV, Matiang'i cited that there are quite a number of Kenyan universities that have violated the set policies and blatantly diluted the education standards.
"We are going to take difficult and painful decisions to restore order in the university education...There are universities that have registered students who scored C in K.C.S.E for degree programmes , knowing that this is a violation of the basic requirements of operating a university," he said.
The CS further revealed that his ministry has begun an in-depth investigation targeting the quality of programs being offered in both public and private tertiary institutions.
He further cited cheating in university examinations as a disaster that cuts across all varsities and assumed monumental proportions.
This, he promised, is a cancerous culture that the ministry will root out and put a permanent end to it.