Higher Education and Research Principal Secretary Beatrice Inyangala had a hard time convincing senators that the new university funding model is a magic bullet to higher education in the country.
Inyangala, who appeared before the Senate Education Committee admitted that the new funding model has found itself in a storm because of inadequate funds, failure by students to admit their vulnerability status and bribery claims.
She told Senators in a session chaired by nominated Senator Margaret Kamar that the notion by the Ministry that students who went to National schools were able to pay for their university education failed to yield credible data. "Placing students in various bands has been difficult because the Ministry of Education has failed to obtain accurate data on the students' vulnerability and the actual income of their families," said Inyangala.
She said the Ministry conducted a survey to collect the data and found that 53 per cent had left their forms in the cyber cafés to be filled by the staff.
