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Rein in fraud by varsities Thursday July 29 2021 By BUSINESS DAILY Summary The High Court has ordered the University of Nairobi to award degrees to 75 former students whom it will also pay Sh15 million for leaving them in the lurch. The individuals were admitted for engineering courses between 2009 and 2011 by the UoN but were later, against their expectation, awarded degrees by Technical University of Kenya (TUK), then a constituent college. As it turned out, certifications from TUK are not r...

Application Deadline: May 28th 2021 Graduate Engineers Internship Programme (GEIP) is an internship programme that gears graduate engineers towards professional registration in Kenya through collaboration between public and private sectors. It is a partnership between Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK), public and private sector stakeholders known as Mentors. It is funded by Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development. According to the Engineers Act 2011 7 (1)(q), one of th...

THE STANDARD NAIROBI Ferdinand Wamalwa Wenani (pictured) was arraigned on Thursday, April 22, 2021. [Standard] A 36-year-old man from Nairobi was on Thursday, April 22 arraigned for practicing as a qualified engineer without a valid license from the engineers’ board. The Milimani Law Courts heard that Ferdinand Wamalwa Wenani, who studied up to Form Four, on February 14, 2018 applied for a tender to construct part of a dormitory at Kamuriai Secondary School in Teso North, Busia County. Wamal...

THE STANDARD BUSINESS NEWS CS James Macharia (PHOTO: FILE) Kenya is modernising its aviation hubs to improve passenger-handling capacity to nine million. Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary (CS) James Macharia said the State will also expand railway transport to handle 50 per cent of the cargo freight from the port of Mombasa as well as promote commuter rail services. Macharia, whose docket includes housing, urban development and public works, said shipping and maritime facilities wi...

Local engineers in Kenya expected to play key role in flagship projects Local engineers in Kenya expected to play key role in flagship projects Modified date: Kenya plans to modernize its aviation facilities to improve passenger-handling capacity to nine million, Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia has said. The government will also expand railway transport to increase the railway capacity to 50% of the cargo freight from the port of Mombasa and promote commuter rail...

World Engineering Day celebrations in Kenya set for March 4 Shares The Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) will partner with the Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK) to commemorate this year’s World Engineering Day to be held on March 4. The events in Kenya will be a part of global activities to observe a day set aside to celebrate engineers and their achievements. The day was first marked last year. The theme of this year’s celebrations is Engineering for A Healthy Planet: Celebrating the U...