{"id":195318,"date":"2025-04-03T23:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-moi-university-issues-redundancy-notice-to-uasu-as-it-moves-to-cut-down-on-lecturers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T23:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:00:38","slug":"kenya-moi-university-issues-redundancy-notice-to-uasu-as-it-moves-to-cut-down-on-lecturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-moi-university-issues-redundancy-notice-to-uasu-as-it-moves-to-cut-down-on-lecturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Moi University Issues Redundancy Notice to UASU As It Moves to Cut Down On Lecturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Moi University has issued a redundancy notice to University Academic Staff Union (UASU) as it moves to cut down on lecturers due to declining student numbers and a cash crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to the institution&#8217;s Acting Vice Chancellor Kiplagat Kotut, this has created &#8220;a difficult operating environment making it a challenge for the University to meet its financial obligations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;As a result, we are compelled to review our operations including payment of employee emoluments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">He further&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504030336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Moi University has issued a redundancy notice to University Academic Staff Union (UASU) as it moves to cut down on lecturers due to declining student numbers and a cash crisis. According to the institution&#8217;s Acting Vice Chancellor Kiplagat Kotut, this has created &#8220;a difficult operating environment making it a challenge for the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8021,8008,4688,430,16804,12543,6858,257,10550,34744,254,18635,5148],"class_list":["post-195318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cut","tag-issues","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lecturers","tag-moi","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-notice","tag-redundancy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uasu","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}