Plans to remove higher diploma courses from the Kenyan education system have been introduced by a government agency.
Kenya National Qualification Framework Authority chairman Bonventure Kere noted that the decision had been reached out to solve the long duration students take while trying to earn the higher diploma.
“A diploma takes three years then higher diploma two years. That means that someone is in school for five years and when he joins university for a degree programme, he or she starts in third year or second year, that is unfair to a student,” Mr Kere said.
“Globally, National Qualification Frameworks are systems that record the credits assigned to each level of learning to ensure that skills, knowledge and prior-learning are uniformly recognised and accredited throughout their jurisdictions of application,” CS Amina stated.
“Unregulated systems also increase the prevalence of fraudulent and fake certification and cloud the capacity to collect complete and cohesive evidence on a country’s skills landscape,” she said
