Universities Academic Staff Union — represents lecturers across Kenyan public universities, currently escalating labor action over stalled collective bargaining agreements and unpaid salary arrears.
… The Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) has accused the university of failing to settle outstanding payments despite a Sh1.2 billion government allocation intended to clear arrears accrued between 2017 and 2022. …
The Universities Academic Staff Union has issued a seven-day notice for a nationwide strike by lecturers beginning October 2, citing the persistent failure by university councils, the Ministry of Education and the National Treasury to honour the Return-to-Work Formula and provide a financial counter-proposal for the 2025–2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission disclosed that neither the Ministry of Education nor the National Treasury had provided written commitment that funding would come through the National Exchequer.
The Universities Academic Staff Union has issued a seven-day notice for a nationwide strike by lecturers beginning October 2, citing the persistent failure by university councils, the Ministry of Education and the National Treasury to honour the Return-to-Work Formula and provide a financial counter-proposal for the 2025–2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission disclosed that neither the Ministry of Education nor the National Treasury had provided written commitment that funding would come through the National Exchequer.
The Universities Academic Staff Union has issued a seven-day strike notice, with lecturers set to begin a nationwide strike at midnight on Friday, October 2, 2026, over the government's failure to honour the Return-to-Work Formula signed on November 5, 2025, and to provide a financial counter-proposal for the 2025-2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The Universities Academic Staff Union has given the government and IPUCCF one month from September 18 to table a financial counter-proposal and conclude the 2025–2029 collective bargaining agreement, citing nearly a year of stalled negotiations and growing anxiety among public university academic staff.
The Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) and Kenya Universities Staff Union (KUSU) have accused the government of failing to honour Collective Bargaining Agreements, warning of fresh disruption if pending 2017–2021 and 2021–2025 CBA arrears are not paid in full immediately.
The Universities Academic Staff Union warns that lowering the retirement age for professors from 74 to 70 and for senior lecturers from 70 to 65 could cause the University of Nairobi to lose up to 70 per cent of its academic workforce within five years. The union is demanding withdrawal of the Public Service Commission circular, noting the university has already lost about 40 per cent of academic staff since a hiring freeze in 2020.
The Universities Academic Staff Union warns that implementing the Public Service Commission's revised retirement policy—which lowers the retirement age for professors from 74 to 70 and for other academic staff to 65 and below—could cause the University of Nairobi to lose between 60 and 70 percent of its academic staff. UASU says the university has not recruited lecturers since 2020 and has already lost 40 percent of its workforce through attrition.
The Universities Academic Staff Union has called on the Public Service Commission to withdraw a circular on university professor retirement age, warning it could result in the loss of up to 70 percent of the University of Nairobi's academic staff and threaten teaching, research and innovation. UASU says the PSC overturned an earlier agreement without consulting universities or academic staff, and notes conflicting court rulings have created legal uncertainty.
The Universities Academic Staff Union has opposed a new Public Service Commission retirement policy that lowers the retirement age for professors from 74 to 70 and for other academic staff to 65 and below, warning it could force out 40 per cent of the University of Nairobi's remaining staff and cripple academic programmes.
A columnist reflects on the decline of university culture, arguing that while physical infrastructure has expanded, the institutions have lost their focus on scholarship and ideas in favor of administrative bureaucracy. The author questions when this shift began, comparing current universities unfavorably to their historical counterparts like Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Nairobi in its intellectual heyday.
The Universities Academic Staff Union has threatened to strike if Egerton University does not address grievances including delay in implementing a 2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement and over Ksh.2 billion in unpaid salary arrears dating back to 2018. The union also demands immediate replacement of the acting Vice Chancellor, Isaac Kibwage, whose tenure is due to end in October 2026.
The Universities Academic Staff Union has accused Moi University of failing to settle outstanding salary payments despite a Sh1.2 billion government allocation for arrears accrued between 2017 and 2022, and has threatened a strike if the dispute is not resolved before the September academic term.