Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi has warned that Universities which give papers to unqualified students will be shut and their certificates recalled.
Speaking to Citizen TV during a Sunday interview, Matiang’i said that a study by the Commission for University Education (CUE) has revealed that a number of these institutions are admitting undergraduate students to their degree programmes without the minimum required grade C+.
“We are going to take action. It will be a difficult and painful reform. But it is necessary. I hope the public will understand and support us,” Matiang’i said.
Among those who will be affected greatly by the crackdown, he said, were students from well-to-do backgrounds and politicians who attained less than the C+ varsity entry grade.
He also addressed the issue of missing marks at universities, saying that some of these institutions even lacked the records of their graduands.
"Where it (CUE) is not satisfied, they should recall the degrees,” he said.