KENYA has over 70 universities, 38 of them public and 35 private. Over 500,000 students were enrolled in the last academic year. Public universities took the lion’s share with over 400,000 of these students. SHEHU SHAGARI AWANDU, Head/Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology While public universities are challenged by overcrowding, inadequate numbers of lecturers and degraded facilities, private ones have lower student to staff ratios and have better facilities and equipment. But all universities have been affected by the pandemic. An entire year of learning was lost due to government closure and universities…