The University of Nairobi is set to scrapped courses that have failed to attract students in a renewed effort to reform varsity education in the country.
Report shows that over 40 courses at the institution are on the verge of being affected by the plan as they have not attracted any students for the last five years.
The courses are listed in a document dubbed Rationalization of Academic Programmes which has since been tabled before the University Senate.
The document, which comprises recommendations made from over 10 faculties, outlines that courses to be dropped were either duplicated or have since been replaced.
Following the recommendation, faculties and schools touched will now have to defend why any of the courses must be retained in the university programmes list.
The marked courses cut across certificates, diploma, bachelors, masters and PhD, with the most-affected coming from these departments: agriculture, mathematics, population studies and research institute, nursing science, translation and interpretation, biological sciences, African women studies, arts, institute of anthropology, gender and African studies and physical sciences.
