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Competition for students among private universities in Kenya is intensifying, with institutions taking to both the electronic and print media to advertise programmes and display achievements. The private higher education sector is thriving, and now enrols 20% of all students.
Private universities are opposed to a proposal to scrap the 8-4-4- system as recommended by the task force on the re-alignment of the education sector.
Concerned that a growing number of students are enrolling in poor-quality private universities and diploma mills, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are working together to develop more stringent...
The Tanzania Commission for Universities, or TCU, has finally acted against a branch campus of Uganda’s Kampala International University, ordering the Dar es Salaam-based institution to stop offering masters and doctoral courses.
Nearly 600 colleges are registered to operate in Kenya, but only 10 have been accredited to offer programmes on behalf of foreign universities, higher education regulators have said.
Våldet i Kenyas val för fem år sedan krävde över 1 100 dödsoffer och observatörer har varnat för en upprepning. Stämningen på valdagen är "spänd men förväntansfull", säger Anders Sjögren, forskare i statsvetenskap vid Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, som befinner sig i Nairobi. - Jag bevakade bland annat när premiärministern röstade. Det var mycket folk ute men läget var lugnt och disciplinerat, säger Anders Sjögren till TT.
David Smith,Guardian, in Nairobi 3.3.: "Victory for Kenyatta would put the world in uncharted diplomatic waters: it would be the first time a nation has democratically elected a politician indicted by the ICC. Given Kenya's status as a key western ally, not least in the fight against terrorism in neighbouring Somalia, a diplomatic headache looms."
allAfrica.com: "Water and Irrigation Minister Charity Ngilu said the government will drill 250 water boreholes across the country, 50 of which will be in Nairobi, to address the acute water shortage. Already 15 boreholes have been drilled in the capital w
The attack on the Westgate mall in Kenya last month by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants has underscored the need for enhancing U.S. engagement with the African continent, said senior American officials in an online press conference. “It highlighted to us that we were pursuing the right strategy and proved that we had to bolster that strategy,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of African Affairs of the US State Department.
Sept 23 (CNN) -- British-born Samantha Lewthwaite was once seen as a kind of victim of the July 2005 London terror attacks -- the pregnant wife of one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 people, now left alone to care for her children. She condemned the attacks but then vanished. Now, Kenyan authorities say, she is the infamous "White Widow," alleged to be a supporter and financier of people linked to the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab.
IPS - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export. -- The area in question is fertile land, with abundant fresh water in the Tana River delta, about 15
m:lab East Africa is the region’s new incubation facility for entrepreneurs and innovators with a focus on mobile technology. The lab aims to facilitate demand-driven innovation by local and regional entrepreneurs, ensuring that breakthrough low-cost, high-value mobile solutions can be developed and scaled-up into sustainable entreprises that address social and economic needs. The facility’s services include business incubation, training, consumer research and application testing. The facility will also assist developers and entrepreneurs to access capital for scale up of their innovations as well as to access markets and business partnerships. The lab’s activities are aimed at helping to make the East Africa region a global hub for mobile innovation.
Despite growing by leaps and bounds in the past 10 years and expanding higher education access to thousands of needy learners, private universities in Kenya continue to shun science, technology, engineering and mathematics – STEM – courses, leaving the heavy financial and infrastructural burdens of these subjects to poorly funded public institutions.
Kenyan universities edged out their East African counterparts to emerge top in a new survey focused on the adoption of information and communication technology in higher education. Private universities outperformed public institutions and Uganda’s Makerere University was placed first.
Private Universities in Kenya receive no funding from the government for running expenses. They rely on tuition fees to meet recurrent and developmental costs.
Mount Kenya University deputy vice chancellor Evans Kerosi said the move will increase the number of students in private universities to be admitted through a joint admission board.
The draft bill also implies that private universities could benefit from public funding should the government deem this to be necessary and allocate money to them through parliament. “A private university shall account for any funds received from the government,” says section 50 of the legislation.
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Diesmal habe ich längere Zeit darüber grübeln müssen, welchen Titel ich am besten über diesen Beitrag stellen soll. Werde ich präziser, wird der Titel viel zu lang und ich kann es mir eigentlich sparen dann noch etwas zum Inhalt des Buches zu erzählen. Also habe ich es diesmal einfach bei einer Kernaussage belassen, die zwar zutrifft, aber relativ wenig über den eigentlichen Inhalt aussagt. Tatsächlich vereint das Buch zwei verschiedene Bücher bzw. zwei ozeitlich sehr, sehr lange auseinanderliegende Handlungsstränge, die Sibylle Knaus, Professorin für Text und Dramaturgie an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, hier phantasievoll und unterhaltsam miteinander verknüpft.
J. Kiplang'at, and D. Ocholla. South African Journal of Library & Information Science, 71 (3):
234-246(December 2005)M3: Article; Accession Number: 20486948; Kiplang'at, Joseph 1; Email Address: jkngetich@yahoo.co.uk Ocholla, Dennis N. 2; Email Address: docholla@pan.uzulu.ac.za; Affiliation: 1: Moi University, School of Information Sciences Department of Library , Records Management and Information Studies, P.O. Box 3900, Eldoret, Kenya 2: University of Zululand Department of Library and Information Science P.O. Private Bag ×1001, Kwadlangezwa 3886, South Africa; Source Info: 2005, Vol. 71 Issue 3, p234; Subject Term: DIFFUSION; Subject Term: INFORMATION technology; Subject Term: AGRICULTURAL informatics; Subject Term: RURAL development; Subject Term: SURVEYS; Subject Term: AGRICULTURE -- Research; Subject Term: FARMERS; Subject Term: ELECTRONIC information resources; Subject Term: KENYA; NAICS/Industry Codes: 541712 Reseach and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology); NAICS/Industry Codes: 925120 Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development; Number of Pages: 13p; Illustrations: 2 charts; Document Type: Article.