Magoha writes to AG over legality of qualifications agency
Controversy surrounding the existence of the Kenya National QualificationsAuthority (KNQA) took a new twist yesterday when Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha (pictured) wrote to the Attorney General Kihara Kariuki seeking his intervention on the legality of the agency.
Magoha wants Kihara to clarify whether the Kenya National Qualifications Framework Regulations which gives it powers to operate, supersedes the scope donated by the parent Act which was approved in 2014.
The minister also wants a suit currently before the High Court over the matter adjourned for 90 days to allow him to review the regulations.
The KNQA has been embroiled in a supremacy battle with the Technical and Vocational Education Training Authority (TVETA) over who should approve qualification certificates.
It has emerged that the authority has been operating without Parliament’s approval. The Commission for University Education (CUE) and TVETA had complained that powers to certify qualifications rests on them and not KNQA.
Legislators have termed as an illegality, KNQA’s role of adjudicating and recognising academic papers obtained locally or from foreign institutions.
