Public universities have been in the news of late over financial difficulties. One of them is Moi University. From an insider-outsider perspective, the university’s problems are a product of years of State neglect of public institutions of higher education. I was lucky to be among the few students who joined Moi University in the late 1980s. It was a place to behold. From the physical infrastructure to the instructional resources, the institution was well. Follow The Standard channel on WhatsApp Then came the Bretton Woods institutions’ structural adjustment programmes in the early 1990s with their cost-sharing policy in both the…