Vice Chancellors endorse varsity fees increment
Vice Chancellors endorse proposals to triple varsity fees from the current Sh16,000 to Sh48,000 for the next cohort of government-sponsored students
Vice Chancellors endorse proposals to triple varsity fees from the current Sh16,000 to Sh48,000 for the next cohort of government-sponsored students.
Under the State’s proposed tuition increase, students enrolling in public universities will need to pay Sh48,000 in order to address the financial issues plaguing the institutions of higher learning.
35 vice chancellors from public universities across the country resolved to raise tuition from the current Sh16,000 to Sh48,000 for the incoming class of government-sponsored students in September.
Continued students, however, will continue to pay Sh16,000.
The 35 vice-chancellors of public universities and state officials from the Ministry of Education and Treasury agreed to raise fees in resolutions passed at the conclusion of the biennial Kenya Universities Fund conference in Mombasa in order to address problems in the universities.
The institutions have accrued debts amounting to Sh60.6 billion in staff pensions and statutory deductions such as Pay As You Earn and National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).
In resolutions read by the Universities Fund chief executive officer Mr. Geoffrey Monari, the dons agreed to save the institutions from the financial cash crunch.
“This is only for first years who will be joining universities from September, continuing students will not be subjected to any fees increment,” said Mr. Monari.
A cabinet memo will be sent by March for approval of the fee increment.
The dons led by the chairman of the Public Universities Vice Chancellors Committee, Prof Geoffrey Muluvi, urged the state to change financing models under the differentiated unit cost (DUC) from 48 percent to 65 percent.
Other resolutions include a write-off of the Sh18 billion Pay As You Earn (PAYE), remittance of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), and the pending bills.
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“We will prepare a cabinet memo by March 31st to request the National Treasury to propose how we can clear the outstanding pension bills.
On PAYE we shall be seeking a write-off in the same cabinet memo and for the monies not remitted on the CBAs we shall ask for it,” said Mr. Monari.
Higher Education and Research Permanent Secretary Dr. Beatrice Inyangala who closed the two days meeting urged the vice-chancellors to make the difficult decision of increasing fees.
In the heated meeting to deliberate the fee increment, the PS said the stakeholders must make decisions however difficult.
“I heard your cries. Every student who got a C (+) plus and above goes to university some may have to pay for themselves and some the government will pay for them. As a state we only have Sh15 billion, that’s why we called the Treasury to make a statement. Difficult decisions have to be made,” said Dr. Inyangala.
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