By Hezron Kute
Njoroge : I am Wanjiru Njoroge and am a third year student in Multimedia University pursuing journalism.
Interviewer : Njoroge, what do you think about the merger proposal for universities.
Njoroge : Am at a standstill where i both agree and disagree with it. I agree with it in the the perspective of students will be able to specialize in different courses in a specific environment where they’ll get a great education system where they will get a specialization. But i don’t really support because how do you implement such a thing in a short period of time. This is not something you can wake up today and make over a lapse of a short period of time. You have to consider things like monetary issues, distance issues, their are some students who you cant tell that because Multimedia University is a school for journalism they should get out of a place like Mombasa where they can get like a technical university to teach teach the same course and move them to Nairobi. How will you cater for all that? You know education is not free. Dorm systems are not free in Kenya unlike other countries so its still a hustle i do not believe that can work out.
Interviewer : Do you think they’ll achieve this feat anytime soon?
Njoroge : Not really, unless the implementation of a long period of time you have to consider the fact that people are still studying you cannot pause education and say that y’all stop at 1.2 move to another place so you can start you education system again from that specialization area, like maybe from Kisumu you move to Multimedia University to pursue journalism that is not really possible and another thing i don’t think it will be fair to the workers this is cutting on jobs for people, once a university is closed people will not be able to get normal jobs where they used to get.
Interviewer : OK thank you fro speaking to me Njoroge
Njoroge : You are welcome.
No Brainer 