Last week, a special Education committee was formed to develop a policy on setting up an ‘elite’ university. Notably, the silence from the Commission for University Education (CUE) when this communication emerged was deafening. First, the so-called elite university is articulated as one that will be ‘exclusive’ and modelled on post-modernist utopian discourse such as those that preceded the overrated futuristic Konza City. What message are we sending by creating an elite university and perpetuating inequality that is already a problem in our education system? The Education docket is too large for Prof George Magoha to dart from managing national exams, juggling a wobbly curriculum and taming cartels to supervising university education.

Source: Standard Digital September 18, 2020 21:01 UTC