University education in Kenya: current developments and future outlook

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. Private universities are discussed in the context of how they differ from the public universities. Problems facing the public universities are outlined. Measures that are being put in place by the universities to cope with reduced funding are evaluated.