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Three strikes in one week. That is how bad things have become at some of our local universities.
Well, according to psychologist Ken Munyua, Kenyan students are merely scared of exams. Yes, they choose to strikes as an outlet for ‘exam fever’.
Students strikes at University of Nairobi, Laikipia University and Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology may after all have been instigated by this one fear — examinations.
At Laikipia University, Campus Vibe learnt that students were protesting the move by the institution to offer several courses — some allegedly unrecognised, and were yet to be registered or accredited by either Commission for University Education (CUE) or relevant professional bodies.
“Boichemistry and Biomedicine are not registered, and are not allowed to operate in Kenya. We don’t even have equipment. We have to go to Egerton for practical studies,” said Beldine Hinga, a third year Biochemistry student.
The institution has however clarified that all its courses are recognised by the Commission for University Education.
At Masinde Muliro (MMUST), students have threatened to go back to the streets if they are allowed back into campus.
MMUST was indefinitely closed after chaos erupted involving students and examinations officers at the institution.
The students who were protesting a new rule introduced also known “100 per cent fee payment policy” called on to the university administration to allow every student sit to for the examinations.
Counselling psychologist Munyua says: “All these strikes are happening just a week or two before exams. You realise you have not done a lot and start seeing things that you had not seen before. Like what the administration might or might not be doing,” he said adding that this is a sign of exam fever.
“Some people usually drink away the stress, some just sleep it off. But the most outspoken is inciting others and you do greater damage. Then you postpone your problem, the exam,” he added.
