After all, the side hustle gets me more money than my salary. That is a saying that we hear or have said on several occasions. If you are in this position or are considering it, let us do a social experiment first. While the books of your side hustle may…
Panic has hit the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) over the declining number of continuing students in middle-level colleges taking up subsequent allocations. It emerged that only half of the 43,000 who applied for loans last year have applied for a second allocation, raising questions on…
Most universities could be forced to drop Business Administration, Education and Journalism degrees as the Ministry of Education moves to stop uneconomical multiplication of degrees. Currently, nearly all of the 74 private and public universities offer the three degrees, making it uneconomical to manage them as they fail to attract…
Sometime back yesteryear, I paid a courtesy call to the Thirdway Alliance party leader, Dr Ekuru Aukot, at the party’s Headquarters in Lavington, Nairobi. During that momentous occasion in that “miniature Rome”, I was told to dress up like the other Romans and so did I without any sense of…
A total of 700 students at Moi University on Wednesday lost their bid to have the institution include them in the 38th graduation ceremony taking place on Thursday. Justice Pauline Nyamweya while delivering the ruling in Mombasa criticised the university for failing to include the students on its graduation list.…
The University of Botswana is offering a special elective course on Brexit, calling it the UK’s “biggest crisis for a generation”. Bruce Bennett, a senior lecturer at the university’s history department, who is organising the course, said the institution offered a regular course in British history. “We’d do a range of…
Thirty-two public Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) throughout the country risk closure over low enrolment and poor grades. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has warned the principals of the institutions to deal with the institutions’ challenges, or else universities will be asked to train the student teachers. DIPLOMA LEVEL “Why do…
A leading innovator in enterprise software, VMware, has announced the expansion of its IT Academy to Kenya’s Strathmore University in Nairobi. Dubbed: Virtualize Africa, the programme comes with an overarching goal to empower the fast-growing, young African population to enter the digital workforce with confidence and expertise. It also aims to help…
The Scheduled graduation this week Thursday is rocked with criticism following the missing of 700 students from the graduation list. The High Court in Nairobi on Friday declined a petition seeking to stop the planned Moi University graduation scheduled for Thursday, August 22, 2019, after students moved to court to…
13 students from Moi University have filed a petition seeking to stop Moi University’s 38th graduation ceremony slated for Thursday next week until their names are included in the graduation list. The students are among about 700 others protesting their exclusion from the list. The affected students who enrolled at the university…