Professor Ayub Gitau steps into the University of Nairobi’s top job with a crowded in-tray: reported multi-billion-shilling debt pressure, restive staff unions and anxiety over academic reputation metrics.
Flagship public universities across Kenya face the same triangle—fees politics, wage bills and research output—while private and foreign options court high-performing students.
Stabilise first
Early wins for a new VC are rarely glamorous: payroll reliability, exam calendar certainty and open books with the council. Without those, ranking talk sounds abstract to lecturers and students.
