Chairpersons of the Public Universities Councils have been urged to adopt financial innovation, enterprise models, and cost-efficiency strategies to rescue Kenya's struggling higher education sector from a worsening debt crisis.
Speaking at the Inaugural National Retreat for Public University Councils in Mombasa, the Principal Secretary (PS) for Higher Education, Dr Beatrice Inyangala, called for urgent structural reforms to restore stability in the institutions.
The PS called for the strengthening of internal audit and quality assurance departments for the identification and mitigation of risks. "Most of our universities are in crisis.
The time to change our future is now.