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Re-Designing Higher Education Curriculum for Sustainable Development
Author(s)
Kipkoech Lydia Cheruto, Koross Rachel Chepchumba
Rotumoi Joseph Tuitoek
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2018.1.005
Affiliation(s)
University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya
University of Kabianga, Kericho, Kenya
ABSTRACT
Kenyan higher education has
grown tremendously in the recent years. Today, there is virtually a campus or an institution
collaborating with a university in most urban centers. Following the
promulgation of the new constitution in 2010 in Kenya, education is a basic human
right. Consequently, it has continued to receive support from both the
government and the private sector. Higher education has been commercialized as
seen in the craze for establishment of some university campuses without
sufficient learning and research facilities. What is more, individuals, parents, and benefactors are willing to go to all
lengths to ensure that their children get degrees with the hope of uplifting
their living standards. The Kenyan universities are
graduating thousands of students each year to the job market, and hence, the huge
numbers of graduates are unemployed. In the midst of all this, there is need
for re-designing of the
university curriculum to be more innovative and focus on meeting the
government’s development agenda as envisioned in Vision 2030 and a move towards achieving the millennium development goals (MDG) of poverty eradication.
The future university ought to be on the forefront by providing
sustainable solutions for the many challenges we
faced. This paper discusses the various strategies that
institutions of higher learning can adopt in a bid to be agents of sustainable
development.
KEYWORDS
curriculum, development, higher education, innovation, sustainability
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