Most if not all would concur that the higher education practitioners are unorthodox and uncouth, especially after judge Makau termed the ongoing strike as illegal, unlawful and unprotected.
Notwithstanding, the 22 public campuses' staff have since held their grounds and are still yelling solidarity, thinking not of Students nor their parents.
Have you thought of parents, the figures they've had to part with while settling their kids for school? The numbers of hours wasted for public campus students. The humongous dreams you squash and stacks of ambitions you make crumble with your shoddy unprecedented now and then strikes. Oh I forget, you have your lives all worked out, and not for a second do you relax to think of other persons' ?
An array of strikes blossomed the academic year 2016/2017. With lecturers' holding a duo- go slow during the aforementioned year. This has translated to the current 2018 now, with the dons issues proving cringe- vital as it stands.
Barely less than 3 weeks ago, University Academic Staff Union (UASU) alongside other affiliate bodies denounced a court order. The "teachers by profession" guys had no scruples about muttering a loud bewildering NO to judge Makau's verdict. An action they feel no sorry about. One they executed without compunction whatsoever.
Constantine Wesonga, who signs off as secretary general UASU reiterates that the union should not be confused for being egocentric, but the guy feels public campus lecturers' are suffering a disorder best known to him as " discrimination".
"Why are the highest and most learned academic staff (professors) not in the highest job group? So who is supposed to be there if the most learned aren't there?" Wesonga lamented.
Privy, Cs Amina Mohammed feels there exists a lot of creepy issues which overwhelm and continue to cripple smooth operation of public university academics. She too feels lecturers' are behaving in somewhat of an unorthodox and archaic manner.
" When the country set up the SRC, it was agreed that it will be the guiding pillar in salary determination. But the lecturers don't want to be guided by the same body, " she said.
It has come of wind that some public universities actually implemented the CBA 2017 - 2021 in full, but then others didn't comply with the Collective Bargaining Agreement's set codes of conduct, such including submission of payroll data to the ministry by all public campuses. Now, Amina Mohammed is aware and promises to get to the seabed of the issue through look and crook.
Ms. Amina has sprung up some measures including the establishment of a probe which will dig into the matter and issue out a concise report within a month dating from 18th March 2018.
Suffice is to say things will remain as they stand on matters education in public universities at least until 20th April 2018, a point at which the ministry will decide on the most possible option going forward.
Comrades are vacating university premises, leaving them vacuum- empty with the aforementioned eluding pangs of academic hunger that has left their hopes of clearing higher learning as per their admissions' stipulations grow leaner by day.
Education is becoming a preserve of the rich,most poor families are struggling to keep their children in these institutions,and their worries mounts day by day when they imagine their children staying longer than necessarily required.
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