Celebrations by a Nakuru family whose son graduated from college last weekend were cut short when he and a friend drowned at a hotel. Relatives said Mr Simon Mbugua, 27, had gone to celebrate with seven of his friends at the nearby Pilgrims Getawa Hotel, Ngata, on Wednesday when he…
Kabarak University has joined the ranks of local private universities to get ISO certification. The university yesterday celebrated the two-year journey towards realising the dream that saw the university attain the requirements by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs). “Attaining the ISO 9001:2015 was not a walk in the park.…
University students are not eating well, are sleeping poorly and are not active enough and it has started showing in their health, according to a new report. A medical screening report of 323 students at a local university also shows many are spending too much time behind computers, mobile phones…
Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has directed the higher education regulator to audit all universities operating with letters of interim mandates to establish their suitability. Dr Matiang’i on Monday said universities that will be found to have breached the law will be shut with immediate effect. “We cannot have universities…
A university student was murdered by her lover in a guest house in Bondo town. Valerie Apondi Odhiambo (pictured), a student at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology is said to have been murdered by her boyfriend after a quarrel at dawn yesterday. Witnesses say the suspect, Collins…
According to the new students’ governance structure, there shall be an Independent Electoral Commission comprising of seven (7) members; a Chairman, three members of staff and three students. A student commissioner shall be appointed on application to Senate and must meet the following criteria as set out in the UNSA…
A new mobile network operator(MNO) in Kenya, faiba4G has just been announced by jamii telecommunications, which is going to highly favour comrades who spend a lot of time browsing. This is after a long journey that started early this year when JTL was awarded a license to use the 700MHz…
The University of Nairobi is carrying out an intellectual property survey whose objective include identifying research output with commercialization potential and intellectual property awareness. To take part in the survey click any of the links below as you may find applicable to you. Fill out the questionnaire and click submit…
You know that the employment landscape is undergoing fundamental upheavals, right? You appreciate that the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence is going to give automation a big push, I hope? You realise that some studies suggest nearly half of all today’s jobs could be lost to automation – yes?…
Student leaders have asked Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino to keep off university politics to allow the current leaders to exercise their duties. Multimedia University student president Robin Boit said Babu Owino had ceased to be a student leader and should, therefore, stop interfering with student affairs. “We…