Sandra Musujusu’s research focuses on a type of breast cancer that commonly affects black women. An African University of Science and Technology, Abuja student is making groundbreaking discoveries in the way cancer is treated. Sandra Musujusu is developing an alternative treatment for a subtype of breast cancer commonly found in…
Vice-chancellors of top public universities will earn more than their colleagues at the recently chartered higher education institutions under new guidelines by Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). Those working in institutions such as the University of Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Moi University, Egerton University, Kenyatta and…
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ reign on the top of the Forbes’ Real Time Billionaires List only lasted a morning. Bezos became the richest person in the world for the first time with a $90.6 billion net worth when markets opened on Thursday. But while Amazon stock climbed another…
Safaricom’s M-Pesa Foundation Academy in Thika will serve as a benchmark for Kenya’s secondary schools’ reform, Education Secretary Fred Matiang’i has said. Dr Matiang’i said the Ministry of Education will use the school in Thika as a benchmark for ongoing reforms in the secondary school curriculum. He said the academy’s student-centred…
Ten students from the University of Nairobi are among the 120 students flagged off by the Cabinet Secretary for Water and Irrigation, Hon. Eugene Wamalwa, for an 11-month advanced agriculture & irrigation training in Israel. The students drawn from the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Studies (CAVS) are Dennis Tomoina,…
The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Kenyatta University (KU) have been barred from admitting students to their campuses in Arusha, Tanzania. According to the Tanzanian Commission for Universities (TCU), the two universities will not be allowed to admit students from September 2017 after failing to meet…
The moment graduates complete their undergraduate education, their hopes are up there, you can’t convince any that jobs are scarce in the country; they will even spit at you. Six months down the line, you meet a number of them in the street, dejected, resigned and embarrassed to speak out…
University academic staff are headed for a major battle with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) over a proposed grading structure they say placed them below junior administrative staff. The academic staff say the grading system has failed to recognise their special role, banding them lower than junior administrative colleagues.…
Cheating in this year’s national examination will be a serious offense that will attract a jail five years jail term or a fine of Sh5 million. This was made possible after the President Uhuru Kenyatta Friday assented to the National Examination Council (Amendment) Bill, 2016 introducing these munity measures proposed…
Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, jetted into Nairobi yesterday. He is speaking to Kenyan youth at the University of Nairobi this afternoon to offer Kenyan youth tips on how to build successful business empires. A special adviser for youth entrepreneurship and small businesses…