Local varsities must pull up their socks to compete on global stage

A new survey has once again bared our universities' lackluster performance. In the study, only University of Nairobi (UoN) features among the top 1,400 universities globally at position 801.

In a country teeming with universities, this is hardly good news. In 2018, five Kenyan universities; UoN, Egerton University, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Moi University and Kenyatta University were ranked among the world’s 2,500 top-performing institutions.