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Government should rescue our university education from doldrums

Students during a past graduation ceremony. [File, Standard]

An exasperated mother recently expressed the pain of parents with wayward sons and daughters in university. She told Milimani court magistrate Dolphina Alego that her son, a student in a private university, is incorrigible. 

She was reacting to an apology by her son after he and six colleagues were acquitted of the murder of a fellow student. Technology saved them from jail after closed circuit television cameras showed the student fell from the 11th floor of a building on November 23, 2025 as she tried to jump from one balcony to another while inebriated. 

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