Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Ruai Girls High School
In less than year since its inception, Ruai Girls High School has moved from rather humble beginnings to mortar and stone structures. A sense of order pervades the entire compound of the school that is situated on Kangundo Road, a few minutes from the intersection with the Eastern bypass. Most of the students are from […]
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I came across this story, and in the light of Microsoft partnership with the Kenyan Govt, thought that a FOSS based platform is the way to go for Kenya and for Africa in general. It is indeed a strange world when educators need to be convinced that sharing information, as opposed to concealing information, is […]
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Just finished reading The Google Story by David A Vise – http://www.thegooglestory.com A few things that struck me: The way that Industry and Academic/Research Institutions work together to solve problems and the great importance that academic and research institutions are in the Us and indeed all developed and NI Countries which brings to mind the […]
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CFA.. ideas anyone?
I’m considering working on improving my finance skills now that i’ve been in IT and telecoms for a while and have always been interested in finance, just that i’m also hooked to IT . I’m calling it a shift in focus from a merely technical approach in business to a broader perspective. I’m considering being […]
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I came across this – spread the word: MIT’s OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/) is looking for African education <!– D(["mb",") is looking for African education<br />institutions to offer mirror sites for its free, web-based teaching<br />materials. With the materials from 1400 MIT courses representing all 33<br />of MIT\'s academic disciplines, millions of educators and learners have<br />used […]
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u go for an interview with a stock pile of papers showing that you are more or less giving Dexter (the boy genius who lives by the laws of science, and hates his sister DeeDee ) competition. So u think u match einstein’s IQ, what with all the papers nicely tucked in your portfolio and […]
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on billions
I’m still dreaming apparently.. I want this university on the top 20 of this list. someone pinch me or show me the money
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thing is if I had a billion dollars today… Kenya would soon be on the way to have a state of the art, world renowned university (or universities)… i’m still dreaming… but hopefully I shall awake from the dream…
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Kenyan Varsities
Imagine 10000 students only in all the Kenyan Universities yet we claim that we are to be fully industrialized by 2015…. or maybe they meant 2115… I think there are sooooo many people capable of actually starting a private university… just that the regulations are so (archaic and) designed to make university something for the […]
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