The Kenyan Flag. [File Courtesy] All nations have similar goals. The three primary goals are national security and defence, economic prosperity, and the promotion of social well-being and equality for its citizens. All the 195 countries in the world have these primary visions in common to achieve and maintain grand freedoms for their citizens. Liberty, freedoms from poverty, ignorance, diseases, and insecurity. The pathways to these national dreams are always under construction as learning continues from past challenges and the world’s best practices. The products, assets, and services that economists call Common-Pool Resources (CPRs) need to be managed by the state…
Author: By Billow Khalid
Students during a past graduation ceremony. [File, Standard] Kenyan universities and colleges have been in the news frequently because of the challenges that they continue to experience. The sources of these challenges are both internal and external in nature. We have many institutions of higher learning and the population of students is equally large. There are a total of 76 universities, 46 of them public, besides training colleges. Education is a massive instrument of freedom. It gives varied capacities to students for life. Thus the importance of higher education to Kenya’s future prosperity. As Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the…