Stop defending KU so much. KU has significant challenges with quality of education and management. Worse than any found at UoN and Moi. Their quantity over quality policy is simply a sham. New building and infrastructure doesn't equal a great learning environment.

KU and Mugenda have done great in terms of infrastructure and failed miserably in terms of quality education! And that is why institutions need a change of guard. Mugenda should now leave and KU gets someone with a focus on QUALITY EDUCATION. Mugenda has done his bit with infrastructural development.

The Quality of education at KU is a joke! Classes of hundreds of students! How do you teach a fellow in first year calculus with a microphone while he is at the back of a class of 500 students? How does a lecturer supervise a CAT being done by 500 people? Does he even bother to mark the CATs? If he has 6 classes, those are 3000 students/Scripts. You expect him to mark 3000 CAT I, 3000 CAT II, 3000 assignment I, 3000 assignment II, 3000 Final Exam scripts??? Seriously? You expect him to engage the students and discuss their work/ideas. Not in a million years!!!

KU also had full Engineering departments with no single Engineer or even a lecturer trained in the area the course is focusing on! Even the chairman is from a different discipline - like History or Linguistics!!! Read the Engineers Board of Kenya Report on KU Engineering courses and you will not believe your eyes!!! Total joke.

All universities in Kenya have major shortcomings and for Kenya to grow these shortcomings must be addressed.The discussion about which university in Kenya is better is neither here nor there.What we need is the universities need to engage and train graduates to be prepared for the Job market.We need to start inculcating the spirit of entrepreneurship so that the students are not only job seekers but also Job creators.
The idea of incubation centres in universities such as the The Chandaria Centre and the mentorship programs with Equity in KU are good initiatives.
Universities need to engage the private sector to ensure that what is being trained is relevant to the market and that employers do not have to retrain the students too much so that they understand what happens they need to do in the job market.Strathmore University has been doing very well in Engaging private companies such as the various trainings done by IT companies.
The Kenyan universities need to learn from Harvard Business school,Pretoria University and other Top universities on how to provide quality education to students.

If she said that she attained doctoral studies, does that make her an automatic KU professor? That conservation man had an interesting presentation, yes Obama acknowledged it but he was also blunt enough to tell everyone else to keep it short and simple.

Anyway, now i see the discussion has changed from the profs to the quality of education in KU. The quality of education in public unis is on a death bed. If you really want an education and not papers, go to Strathmore, USIU or Catholic Universities. The others are in the business of making money for papers.

The long and short of it is to me KU was the worst session full of Kenyan beggars with Phds, problem with these beggers is they have begged elsewhere 'in your name' and messed up, i know they chew money meant to benefit all from grants "mara youth women e.t.c" and when they saw Obama, these "intellectuals" all started by begging, instead of trying to learn from Obama and also we to learn, Obama had already set aside 1billion dollors "for women entreprenuers" (will end up with these grant people na maproposal zao not businessmen)selfish people, mimi, I, myself, whether ni mambo na elephant which we should know better, sijui woiyishe mamuslims, 41 children family e.t.c are all nonsense and it happened at KU, if that has nothing to do with KU i don't know. Even their begging ideas were not so good

Time would have been better spent listening to mama mbogas and gumzo mtaani problems.