EAC Approves Bill to Harmonise Higher Education

{{The East African Community’s states have approved a key bill seeking to harmonise and standardise their university education systems, ending three years of haggling.}}

Earlier this month education ministers of member states– Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda – meeting in the Rwandan capital Kigali, approved the Inter University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) Bill 2012.

It essentially removes the barrier that was blocking the region from rolling out a system that will allow students access to learning and mobility across East Africa.

Educationists said that with the bill’s game-changing provisions, focus would now shift to whether countries will obey the law, which will usher in major changes to the way higher education in the region is run.