42 of 2012 established by the Kenyan Parliament, that is mandated to plan, monitor, regulate, modify, improve and communicate policy to stakeholders, regarding university education in Kenya.
[1] The headquarters of the Commission for University Education, are located at Red Hill Road, (off Limuru Road), in the Gigiri neighborhood of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.
[4] CUE's main role is to license new universities and other institutions of higher learning in Kenya.
Accreditation may be provisional or permanent, and is revocable at the sole discretion of CUE.
The agency is also responsible for monitoring the performance of the institutions that it licenses, to ensure that they maintain the standards, if satisfactory, and remedy those aspects, where improvement is needed.