Eight ways we can make education in Kenya great again

Universities can reduce inbreeding by hiring from outside their graduates and offering incentives, like scholarships, to students from other universities. The fear that standards are not the same was long solved – give prospective students a standard exam, like GMAT or GRE.PHOTO: COURTESY

This year’s KCPE results restored confidence in our examination system. The leakage in exams was reduced from a deluge to a trickle. We all celebrated and realised there is no problem created by Kenyans than can’t be solve by Kenyans.

But to make education the catalyst of economic growth and the conveyor belt from poverty to affluence and self-confidence, we must go beyond cheating. Cheating was an operational issue; what of the strategic ones?