Marine Graduates Land Jobs with Saudi Shipping Company
Seven JKUAT Marine Engineering graduates have been recruited by Saudi Arabia’s Bahri National Shipping Company, the world’s largest owner and operator of Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs). The seven;...
View ArticleMedicine Graduate’s Presentation Shines in Australia
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) graduate and JKUAT alumni, Stephen Odiwuor’s poster presentation on Early Childhood Development stole the limelight in Darwin, Australia in...
View ArticleExperts Attribute Low Interest in Creative Careers to Poor Role Modelling
Despite the creative industry remaining the leading creator of job opportunities globally, local experts have attributed the low number of students pursuing careers in the industry in Kenya to poor...
View ArticleJICA to Strengthen Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge in STI
Africa as a continent is facing several major challenges that most argue, must first and foremost be tackled by the continent itself. To enhance Africa’s capacity to solve her own challenges, the...
View ArticleJKUAT Alumni and Innovator Turns Water Hyacinth into Biofuel
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Alumni, and Innovator, Erick Gathirwa Kariuki, has developed a biofuel innovation that utilizes the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes),...
View ArticleMiss Africa and JKUAT Student Outlines Her Vision for Africa
Globalisation has made humanity to evolve in remarkable ways. However, there is still a great deal of inequality and misunderstanding that exist globally. Over the decades, Africa has bore the brunt of...
View ArticleEmbracing a Holistic Training Approach in Agriculture
Industry players have decried the disconnect between what universities offer to their graduates in terms of skills and what the industry requires. Attaining a university degree is not a guarantee for a...
View ArticleProf Uppal Delivers His 4th Public Lecture
Who invented calculus? The question was a major intellectual controversy between two scholars; Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, which began simmering in 1699. Both mathematicians took claim to...
View ArticleResearchers: Coconut Resources are Under-utilized in Kenya
One of the major challenges facing the coconut sector at the Kenyan Coast is the under-utilization of coconut resources to spur manufacturing in Kenya. Where attempts to utilize the coconut resources...
View ArticleJKUAT to Lead Sub-Committees to Implement Security Guidelines
A committee comprising of 34-members drawn from various stakeholders has been formed to oversee the implementation of action points that are set to serve as guidelines in the management of security of...
View Article7th Cohort of PAUSTI Students Report at JKUAT
The Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (PAUSTI) has admitted the seventh cohort of 115 students, drawn from 35 African countries. Out of the 115, those...
View ArticleSchool of Business Hosts Professional Courses Forum
JKUAT School of Business organised a professional courses sensitization forum for the students of the school, Thursday, February 13, 2020. The forum, under the patronage of Dr. Nasieku Tabitha, sought...
View ArticleAlumni Share their PwC Graduate Recruitment Experiences
JKUAT Alumni currently working with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Kenya, shared their recruitment journeys that saw them join the audit firm. Marvin Gitonga who graduated in June 2019 with a degree in...
View ArticleDeans Elections: Schools Decide
Prof Gerryshom Munala is the new Dean School of Architecture and Building Sciences JKUAT after being elected unopposed during an unanimous vote on February 12, 2020. In his acceptance speech, Prof...
View ArticleVarsity Holds Engagement Forum with Youth and Women Groups
It is an unfortunate fact that despite massive advancement in civilization, both women and youth still have very little access and control of resources, and are often excluded from decision making...
View ArticleStudents Trained on Business Start-ups
In keeping with the adage, teach a man how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime, JKUAT’s College of Human Resource and Entrepreneurship Development (COHRED) held the inaugural Training of...
View ArticleResearchers Refine Strategy to Support the Big 4 Agenda
A team of researchers have earnestly embarked on modalities geared towards refining what could be termed as institutional strategies through development of specific proposals for funding, aimed at...
View ArticleStaff Urged to Focus on Work Productivity; Lessons from Pareto Principle
The Pareto Principle, also known as the Law of the Vital Few and the Trivial Many, the 80/20 rule, or the Principle of Factor Sparsity states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from...
View ArticleJKUSA 2020/2021 Officials Elected
Abdulahi Somo Mubarak is the Chairperson elect of the Jomo Kenyatta University Students Association (JKUSA), deputized by Edna Njoki Kariuki. This follows a convincing defeat he dealt his only...
View ArticleJKUAT Tech Expo Marks 10 years of Existence
It was pomp and fair as the JKUAT Tech Expo marked 10 years of excellence. The students’ run expo premiered 2009, in a bid to encourage and support students’ innovative ideas in order to come up with...
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