NAIROBI, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Kenya on Thursday launched its first Open University in a bid to make higher education affordable and accessible to most citizens.
President William Ruto, who inaugurated and awarded a charter to the Open University in Machakos County, some 70 km southeast of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, said the university opens a new chapter in the country's education sector, noting that for decades, the East African nation's higher education sector had failed to give citizens a chance to access learning opportunities due to limited availability of space in traditional institutions.
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