Re-Designing Higher Education Curriculum for Sustainable Development

Kenyan higher education has grown tremendously in the recent years. Today, there is virtually a campus or an institution collaborating with a university in most urban centers. Following the promulgation of the new constitution in 2010 in Kenya, education is a basic human right. Consequently, it has continued to receive support from both the government and the private sector. Higher education has been commercialized as seen in the craze for establishment of some university campuses without sufficient learning and research facilities. What is more, individuals, parents, and benefactors are willing to go to all lengths to ensure that their children get degrees with the hope of uplifting their living standards. The Kenyan universities are graduating thousands of students each year to the job market, and hence, the huge numbers of graduates are unemployed. In the midst of all this, there is need for re-designing of the university curriculum to be more innovative and focus on meeting the government’s development agenda as envisioned in Vision 2030 and a move towards achieving the millennium development goals (MDG) of poverty eradication. The future university ought to be on the forefront by providing sustainable solutions for the many challenges we faced. This paper discusses the various strategies that institutions of higher learning can adopt in a bid to be agents of sustainable development.