Thread by @wmnjoya

Tekayo is going full steam ahead in creating education segregation in Kenya. He has now appointed a bunch of professors to create the National Elite University of Kenya. I knew that these degree bashing stories in @StandardKenya @ntvkenya were hiding something #degreeofdoubt

Last year, the @CUE_Kenya put out a half hearted notice about amendments to the university act which I don't think the public was supposed to see. Unfortunately I did, and I wrote this letter to the commission but they did not reply. #DegreeOfDoubt wandianjoya.com/blog/proposed-…

In the letter (available on my blog), I specifically addressed the powers which the president and the cabinet were being given to establish universities on the basis of cabinet memos. I addressed the threat to academic freedom #degreeofdoubt

Basically, this is how the model of university education is supposed to work:
1. Use the media to bash degrees as useless for employment
2. Defund universities so that the public says that they are poor quality
#degreeofdoubt

3. Set up a regulation body @CUE_Kenya which drowns existing universities in paperwork. As you can see in my memo on these amendments, I said that CUE micro-managing universities and creating unnecessary bureaucratic jobs #degreeofdoubt

4. Once you have degraded the status of other universities in the public mind, with help from media, now set up an elite university which everyone will compete and aspire to join, and employ top GoK officers only from that elite university #degreeofdoubt

Your home boy, Jayden, copied this tactic from the Anglo-Americans. The UK and US degraded the perception of universities worldwide by demanding their commercialization so that US and UK elite universities could shine and train all the world's elite.#degreeofdoubt

It's basically setting your own game and cheating in the rules. US and UK knew that as long as local universities were good, people wouldn't spend their money at Oxford, Harvard or Amhearst. They needed to degrade our universities so that elites study at theirs #degreeofdoubt

So they came up with rackets. World Bank, the world's shylock, demanded that African governments reduce funding. Then the Anglos came up with "quality assurance" and regulation bodies and provided the standards to measure ourselves with #degreeofdoubt

This thing Kenyans, is so bad. So so bad. The people who will NUKE us will be from the same family. To become a NUKE, people will bribe and corruption will get worse. These NUKEs will make all the decisions, like I explain here #degreeofdoubt

To resist NUKE, you will have to first let go of the idea that competition makes people better. You have to let go of this hatred you have for fellow Kenyans, where you rejoice that you've passed when they fail. We have to care about each others' education . #degreeofdoubt

Otherwise, we should just say this: if parasite sector and GoK think degrees are useless, then let degrees be useless for EVERYBODY, not just for wananchi. We stop hiring on the basis of degrees. #DegreeOfDoubt

Either that, or we ask the right questions.