President William Ruto during the presentation of the report of the National Taskforce on Police Reforms by Chairman of the Taskforce David Maraga at State House, Nairobi. [PCS]

In the starkest admission of the failures of his new university funding model, President William Ruto last Monday set up a 129-member committee to review the contentious framework.

The decision came in the wake of public criticism over the funding model that many describe as discriminative and which has disenfranchised those from poor backgrounds.

Faced with the choice of either keeping or shelving the model, the Head of State chose to engage another task force of sorts, never mind it had been developed through a similar body led by Raphael Munavu, a former university lecturer.

Prof Munavu’s Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms, which engaged multiple stakeholders, had proposed far-reaching reforms, the most consequential of which being a review in university funding.

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