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Flashback: Mwai Kibaki (Kenya, right), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi) at a regional investment conference in Kigali last year. Photo/FILE

Flashback: Mwai Kibaki (Kenya, right), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi) at a regional investment conference in Kigali last year. Photo/FILE 

By CATHERINE RIUNGU  (email the author)
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Posted  Monday, November 16  2009 at  00:00

If you wanted to be a lawyer, Dar was the place to go, if you wanted to be a doctor you went to Makerere and if you wished to be an engineer, you joined the University of Nairobi.

There was no student exchange, no different fees, no quotas.

Today, universities have quotas and different fee structures for locals and East African students, and also a student visa.

Mr Mwapachu says as the region seeks to deepen integration, it must harmonise university education so that qualifications can be standardised across the borders. 

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