Revocation of Ph.D degrees and campus closure by CUE raises moral, ethical and legal issues

It’s morally wrong, unprofessional and illegal for individual/institutions to cancel ones qualification and/or status without first letting them know of the imminent revocation and/or closure of their entities. Indeed, revocation of Ph.D degrees by Commission of university education is welcomed; but they need to employ right procedures before going to the press.

The Vice chancellors and management board of affected Universities have come out guns blazing condemning the modus operandi employed by CUE when announcing the imminent closure of their campuses and/or revocation of its degrees and programs. CUE has been condemned for its unprofessionalism for its failure to inform the University management board before going to the press. If recent media information is anything to go by, that the Commission for University Education (CUE) has revoked doctorate of philosophy degrees (Ph.D) awarded to five students by one of the public University in Kenya in December 2014, and that CUE has also confirmed that it does not recognize the degrees of two students who were admitted into Master Degree programs at the institution from other local universities irregularly, it’s also important to query the procedures of delivery to this painful information to the affected persons and institutions. The commission chairman Prof. Henry Thairu said (through the media) that student admissions were highly irregular based on a postgraduate credit transfer policy that is not provided for in either the Kisii University Statutes or the Universities Standards and Guidelines, 2014.