Sources at CUE said that Prof Suda was upset with the manner universities have been set against students and parents through the media. It emerged that a communication lapse on the commission’s side led to confusion and panic among students and universities.
Sources revealed that most of the unapproved programmes were courses inherited from mother universities by constituent colleges.
Finer details show that the mother colleges ought to have submitted minutes of Senate’s approval of transfer of the programmes to the constituent colleges. This did not happen in most of the cases, according to reports.
“There was a serious problem of slow regularisation of these programmes by Mother University and the constituent colleges. These were to be done to the satisfaction of the commission,” a senior CUE official said.In some cases, the constituent colleges – which are still being nursed by the mother universities – declared capacities, which were rejected by the commission.
According to the CUE website, Tom Mboya University, which is a constituent college of Maseno University, has only three courses approved by the commission.
The courses are Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Education (Science) and Bachelor of Science (Horticulture).However, the university declared a total of 37 programmes, most of which are offered at Maseno University. Some 25 of these courses were rejected.For instance, Bachelor of Arts (business studies, with IT), which was not approved at Tom Mboya, is offered at Maseno as Bachelor of Arts in Business Studies.
