Influence of Funding on University Education in Kenyan Universities

Abstract

There is an issue which has been ignored for long by the Kenyan Government, which is composed of University students who do not qualify for Joint Admission Board Government sponsorship, but still qualify for admission in University. Most of them are not well endowed financially to be able to pay their fees. As the Government concentrates on mainly Grade’ B’ Plain and above, this group of students are neglected and left to struggle on their own. Studies have shown that there is a relationship between availability of funds to support learning programs and how this influences on choice of courses, quality of lecturers employed and general student satisfaction in the learning process. This study sought to establish the relationship between education funding and the rate at which form four leavers with admissible grades enroll for university course at various levels. The study objective is to determine the influence of access to funding on enrolled students; to establish the influence of duration of funding on the programs enrolled by students; to establish the influence of repayment of funding on the course and levels students enroll in. The study employed co-relational research design and the target population will be 2,500. Stratified random sampling method was used to get samples at each level of sampling from the subgroups within the population to arrive at a study sample of 10% which is equivalent to 250. Questionnaires and interview schedule were the research instruments. The study found that access to funding significantly and positively relate with student education in Kenyan universities; duration of funding significantly and positively relate with student education in Kenyan universities and loan recovery period significantly and negatively relate with student education in Kenyan universities.