I think the problem is that graduates from Kenyan universities think they are very bright and are owed something for their "expertise".

I find it shocking that Kenyan graduates can't type to save their lives. Yet they are on facebook.

I was in a Kenyan college and also been in a college "out there". I have to say, I have never met as many self important people as Kenyan graduates....One had the audacity to tell me that he was so bright, I could not afford him. So I told him to go to where he could be afforded. 2 yrs later, he's still tarmaking.

For about 2 yrs I worked as an intern. With a masters degree to boot. And no, I was not paid peanuts, I was paid nothing!

You try get a Kenyan graduate, even the one who's tarmacking to work as an intern. The guy will go start a riot in Tao.

Sorry, Mr/Ms graduate, the world owes you nothing. You are insignificant and no one needs you as much as you think.

You need to prove to the world that you are worth your boss asking the BOG to increase your "personal" salary. Not set up a website to tell people exactly why you are considered a bad person to employ in the first place.

Degrees are poor proof of learning

Students want jobs and respect. Degrees bring both. Employers, meanwhile, want smart, capable workers. A degree is a decent enough proxy for intelligence, but we want it to be more than that. We want degrees to mean that students have learned the foundations of human knowledge: literature, chemistry, physics, composition, metaphysics, psychology, economics and so on. If we didn't, we'd replace degrees with inexpensive vocational exams.

An educated citizenry is healthier, more tolerant, more politically engaged and more fulfilled than an ignorant one. But I refer above to degrees, not education. The two are not the same, even if policymakers talk as though they are.

Are we complaining about corporates or SMEs?

Fellow Wazuans,

I am suprised that all of you have turned my question about how to shame low paying big companies like Equity, Kcb, UBA, etc into a discussion of how people get their salaries.

This thought was born out of a realistion that as a graduate earning Kes, 15,000 I depend on my husband for my fare and lunch and sometimes (Like when he's away), I almost miss work.

I tried to put myself in shoes of some of my single friends, and especially, the guys. Who gives them fare when they run out?

Before I got married, my parents encouraged me to take the job and continued supporting me with rent, food etc

What about those whose parents are unable to asist them?

Is it normal for an employed/working graduate to be living on his parents/ spouse?