{
  "id": 254621,
  "title": "Degrees of debt: How Ruto's new varsity funding plan will drown students in debts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/degrees-of-debt-how-rutos-new-varsity-funding-plan-will-drown",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-07T06:35:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Standard Kenya",
    "slug": "the-standard-kenya",
    "url": "https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001554764/degrees-of-debt-how-ruto-s-new-varsity-funding-plan-will-drown-students-in-debts"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "More than 200,000 students joining universities in September could be affected by the government's plan to replace undergraduate scholarships with loans.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}