Why deferring your university course should worry you

Chief Executive Officer and Secretary to the Universities Fund Geoffrey Monari. [Courtesy]

The government has stopped the release of Sh5.5 billion to fund 32,000 university students who have delayed in completing their courses, pending an audit.

A new report reveals that some of these students may have manoeuvered around the universities’ internal systems to overstay in the colleges, while others deferred courses for various reasons.

And now, the government has rejected a proposal by public universities’ management to have the students funded to complete their courses until the numbers are verified and individual cases justified.