Universities will now be required to release students' transcripts at the end of every academic year, the state has announced.
State Department of Higher Education Principal Secretary Collette Suda on Thursday said both private and public universities must issue their students with progress reports before proceeding to the subsequent year of study.
This, she said, will contain the missing marks and supplementary examinations menace, which has stopped many learners from graduating.
"There is no way a student can be allowed to progress to a subsequent year and sometimes even to the last year without having been issued with the transcripts only to realise later that there were some missing marks or he or she failed to pass a certain unit," Prof Suda said.
"We are going to ask the Commission for University Education to move with speed and clean up this mess."
The PS said the ministry was determined to restore the integrity and credibility of universities. "We are escalating the reforms on the education sector. After delivering credible primary and secondary national examinations, the next port of call is in the universities. We are committed to changing the higher education sector," she said.
She warned universities 'selling' degrees to politicians who are out to meet electoral commission qualifications. "If the ministry finds out that a university is involved in this racket, there will be dire consequences. We cannot allow people to buy degrees," she said.