Expansion of Higher Education In Kenya: Quality Implications

This book delves the recent expansion of higher education in Kenya. It brings out the various challenges that have emanated from this expansion and the likely impact on the quality of higher education. The challenges range from; the academic profession, challenges faced by students, insufficient resources and autonomy, the research environment, the impact of globalization, information and communication technologies, more heterogeneous student bodies, increasing focus on accountability and performance, increasing ethnicization of university education and the demise of middle-level colleges. These issues are crucial and need serious redress in the 21st century and especially when the graduates churned out by the local universities are to compete in the globalized economy.