By Andrew Walyaula
waliaulaandrew0@gmail.com
Parents and students at University of Nairobi (UoN) will have to pay the accommodation fee seven times up from normal rate per semester, even as they are already slapped with tuition fee hike.
Students residing in single rooms, majority of the population in third and fourth years will pay Sh21, 525 in a single semester, a rise from Sh3, 150. Those in shared rooms will pay Sh15, 120 up from Sh2, 730.
The fresh students, who are set to report on 20th, September will pay Sh19, 630 for a room shared by two students per semester, a rise from the Sh2, 835, a fee that was being charged at UoN main campus.
Last week, the students announced a strike to beginning on Monday 20th, September to protest the hike in tuition and accommodation fee where in the memo; it was advised that fresher men should not report.
“In that regard, all first-year parents and students who are to report to the university on the date September 200 are advised not to report to the university,” the memo read.
The postgraduate and students on parallel programs were hit hard after the institution more than doubled their fee in the bid to ease a cash crunch that has seen the institution default on payment of statutory deductions.
Tuition fee for a course like Master’s degree in Communication was raised to Sh600, 000 from Sh275, 000.
Other courses that received the blow were Bachelor of Commerce, Economics, and Law, in particularly the self-sponsored programme where tuition fees was increased to about Sh1 million.
