The Commission for University Education, CUE, has scrapped a total of 133 courses being offered at local universities.
The Commission terms these courses ‘useless’ causing agony to thousands of students who may be undertaking the courses or who have graduated.
The most hit University is Tom Mboya University College which offers 25 unapproved courses. CUE castigates universities for starting up new courses without an aim of minting cash; when they know that they lack both human and physical resources to support content delivery.
Below is the list of unapproved courses being offered at some universities:
- Applied statistics with Information Technology
- Actuarial Science
- Bachelor of Science, Botany
- Bachelor of Arts, Economics
- Bachelor of Arts, Counseling Psychology
- Bachelor of Arts, Geography
- Bachelor of Arts, Development and Policy Studies
- Bachelor of Arts, Community Development
- Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
- Bachelor of Arts, Peace Education
- Bachelor of Science, Informatics and Natural Resource Management
- Bachelor of Science, Anthropology
- Bachelor of Arts, Kiswahili Studies
- Bachelor of Arts, Public Administration and Governance
- Bachelor of Education, Sciences
- Bachelor of Education, Arts
- Bachelor of Arts, International Relations
- Bachelor of Science, Human Nutrition and Diatetics
- Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry
- Bachelor of Science, Public Health
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Education, Early Childhood Education
Here is the list of affected universities and the number of unapproved courses that have been rejected by the CUE:
- Garissa University (10),
- Alupe University College (10),
- Kenya Highlands Evangelical University (7),
- Lukenya University (6),
- Kisii University (5),
- Kenyatta University (4),
- Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (4),
- Moi University (3)
- Kabarak University (2).
- University of Embu (6),
- Turkana University College (5),
- The East African University (4),
- Technical University of Mombasa (2),
- University of East African Baraton (2),
- Karatina University (4)
- Great Lake University, Kisumu (8),
- African University (3),
- Bomet University College (1),
- Catholic University of East Africa (2),
- Co-Operative University of Kenya (3),
- Gretsa University (1),
- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Institute of Science and Technology (6)
- Kenya Methodist University (2).
- Tom Mboya University College (25)
Source:online