DEGREED BUT DISPOSABLE: The Silent Crisis of Kenyan Graduates

Degreed but Disposable exposes how institutional bottlenecks and outdated syllabuses turn educated young people into casualties of a system that refuses to adapt. Linking classrooms to labor markets, it shows how curricula divorced from real job demands, rigid accreditation, and bureaucratic inertia manufacture scarcity, frustration, and wasted potential. The book shifts blame from graduates whose diplomas gather dust while their lives unravel, and places responsibility on governments, universities, and policy frameworks that protect tradition over livelihoods.
It argues that credential inflation, gatekeeping, misaligned assessment, and policy that lags economic reality are deliberate features of a system that produces disposable youth. Stark and unsparing, Degreed but Disposable gives voice to a generation's anger and exhaustion and insists that personal failure is often the predictable outcome of institutional design.