Nairobi, Feb. 14 -- Basic diploma and certificate courses will be scrapped from university academic programmes if Kenya's parliament approves proposals by Embakasi Central legislator Benjamin Gathiru.

In a newly published Universities (Amendment) (No 5) Bill 2023, the MP proposes that universities instead offer postgraduate diplomas and postgraduate certificate courses.

The proposal rhymes with the recommendations contained in the report submitted last year by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER), a task force that had been appointed by President William Ruto to address the challenges that had for long years bedevilled the country's education sector.

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