Students who graduated with engineering degrees but were unable to find work for more than 9 years will be ecstatic after the High Court granted them Ksh15 million in compensation.
According to a story published by Business Daily on Wednesday, July 28, 75 students have filed a lawsuit against the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) over the quality of their degrees.
They claimed that the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) does not recognize their degrees, making them unemployed.
In 2009, the group enrolled at the then-Kenya Polytechnic, which was still a University of Nairobi constituent college. The Technical University of Kenya was later granted a charter and renamed after that.
However, after graduating in 2011, the lot has failed to find meaningful work.
Justice James Makau concurred with the students in his decision, stating that the students should have received degrees from the University of Namibia.
Makau, as a result, instructed the school to provide the students’ names to the University of Nairobi.
“In the lack of any legislative provisions shifting the obligation of granting degree certificates to the TUK, I am in accord with the petitioners that they were students of the UoN and were entitled to be given degrees by the institution,” the court decided.
Kenya has continually had high unemployment rates year after year, owing to the fact that the number of graduates produced each year exceeds the number of job openings in the market.
The judge went on to say that the students were being treated unfairly since they had unrecognized degrees yet were still enrolled at the University of Nairobi.
Makau also judged the two schools guilty of failing to meet the expectations of the pupils.
