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Higher education at crossroads amid budget cuts, new funding model

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National deputy treasurer UASU Edwin Keter flanked by The Technical University of Kenya Academic Staff, Members of UASU to launch a strike at TUK, Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Public universities are facing uncertain times in the wake of budget cuts and a new funding model that threatens the stability of the institutions currently drowning in debt.

Tens of thousands of lecturers in the country's public universities are set to go on strike tomorrow unless the government meets their demands.

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