Prof. Maurice Amutabi

Honestly, the age of students graduating with PhDs in Kenyan universities is worrying, because many of them are in their 50s and 60s and something needs to be done about it. Gerontocracy (study of aging) experts will tell you that scholars are most productive between the ages of 30 and 50, and afterwards they begin to decline. Students who have...

Kenya needs all graduate students to submit both electronic or digital copies as well as manual so that they can be subjected to checks against existing database before defences. At many American universities, all dissertations and theses are subjected to anti-plagiarism software at the library to make sure that at least 70 per cent of the work is original and...

Many universities in Europe and North America discourage their own students from being employed at their Mother University or Alma mater immediately after doctoral studies. It remains taboo in many African societies for one to have relations within the same clan, and can lead to excommunication. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, the idea of ‘academic mongoloids’ is real, alive and well in...

There are many cases where masters and doctoral supervisors have just completed their own degrees and lack proper skills on supervising a research student. Some supervisors suffer from trauma of their own days as students and exert revenge on their graduate students. If they face brutality, they retaliate on their students. There are also cases where some lecturers prefer...