Challenges facing management of higher education in Kenya.

  

Date Posted: 11/19/2012 3:17:14 PM

Posted By: jullieflavia  Membership Level: Gold  Total Points: 2188

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There have been various challenges facing the higher education management. These challenges have adversely affected the attainment of higher education for many Kenyans who may wish to attain the higher education.

Some of the challenges facing the management of higher education include:

a) Universities are faced with inadequate capacity to cater for the growing demand for education. The available spaces for accommodating students cannot be enough to cater for all students who are supposed to be enrolled in the education system.

b) There is a mismatch between the skills acquired by the university graduates and the demand of the industry. This eventually leads to graduates missing jobs or failing to get a job in the relevant fields and some even end up unemployed. The employees sometimes require certain skills and knowledge that the graduates might not have acquired through the education system they went.

c) There is an imbalance between the number of students pursuing science based courses and art based courses. Majority of students pursue arts based courses as compared to those who pursue science based courses.

d) Universities have been accused of rigid administration criteria that do not allow credit transfer between universities and other post secondary institutions. This has further made education in the higher levels seem like is locked within its boundaries.

e) There are some discrepancies in public universities based on gender and regions of origin. To a greater extent, higher education has been criticized as being biased to females and sometimes to people of particular backgrounds. The curriculum taught in the universities is sometimes not open to accommodate all those who wish to pursue higher education.

These challenges have far much affected the access and realization of higher education to most Kenyans who have been trying to work hard in the lower levels with motivation that they will transit to the higher level.

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