Financing University Education in Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

This article discusses university education in Kenya with emphasis on patterns of financing and how this has affected overall operations of the universities. Reforms that have been implemented to reduce government grants to the public universities in an attempt to make them self-sustaining are assessed. Public universities are discussed in the context of how they differ from private universities in financing higher education. Problems facing the public universities are outlined. Measures being put in place by the universities to cope with reduced funding are evaluated.