There is a relatively new phenomenon, a type of political corruption at a grand scale, whereby private education companies owning fake tertiary education institutions significantly influence government's public policy decision-making processes to their own advantage, through covert channels that may not be illegal on the facade. This kind of corruption is called state capture. It is a sophisticated corruption whereby private companies shape the country's public policies and laws as well as government regulations of private business to their own selfish advantage by providing illicit incentives to senior government officials like Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and Directors for instance. The media has tried in recent years to expose this elite corruption in the education system without much avail.
In recent years, private tertiary institutions have proliferated. Almost all institutions have been accredited by the state regulatory authority, even those with questionable credentials. Some of these institutions have no or inadequate facilities which ought to have been prerequisites for accreditation or licensing. Some of these schools don't have libraries, laboratories, enough classrooms, teaching materials and equipment or machinery. Their staff is not qualified for the things they're supposed to be teaching. Sometimes cheap foreign labour, which at times is fraudulent, is exploited by these institutions. Student protests, which are vehemently suppressed by the government and management, are common at these schools. Learners at these schools are in despair about programmes which aren't taking them anywhere.
