Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,335 Location: Masada
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PeterReborn wrote:Iganamagana wrote:MaichBlack wrote:washiku wrote:MaichBlack wrote:PeterReborn wrote:MaichBlack wrote:Bykhovets wrote:
Stop defending KU so much. KU has significant challenges with quality of education and management. Worse than any found at UoN and Moi. Their quantity over quality policy is simply a sham. New building and infrastructure doesn't equal a great learning environment.
KU and Mugenda have done great in terms of infrastructure and failed miserably in terms of quality education! And that is why institutions need a change of guard. Mugenda should now leave and KU gets someone with a focus on QUALITY EDUCATION. Mugenda has done his bit with infrastructural development. The Quality of education at KU is a joke! Classes of hundreds of students! How do you teach a fellow in first year calculus with a microphone while he is at the back of a class of 500 students? How does a lecturer supervise a CAT being done by 500 people? Does he even bother to mark the CATs? If he has 6 classes, those are 3000 students/Scripts. You expect him to mark 3000 CAT I, 3000 CAT II, 3000 assignment I, 3000 assignment II, 3000 Final Exam scripts??? Seriously? You expect him to engage the students and discuss their work/ideas. Not in a million years!!! KU also had full Engineering departments with no single Engineer or even a lecturer trained in the area the course is focusing on! Even the chairman is from a different discipline - like History or Linguistics!!! Read the Engineers Board of Kenya Report on KU Engineering courses and you will not believe your eyes!!! Total joke. The problem is not Peculiar to KU.you go for an MBA class in UON with over 200 students at Ambank House.The microphone is not working and he has no projector.He scribbles something on the board where even the students sitting on the front seats cannot see.Some lecturers attend less than 50% of the classes as they are busy consulting. The problem with our universities is greed for money.They are now running as businesses and have little focus on the quality of education. But KU is notorious for this. MBA at THE has the same problem. The numbers are crazy. I understand there was a time some fellows were not sitting for CATs. They could simply hire undergraduate students who could study and sit for the CATs on their behalf. I don't know if this still happens given that nowadays I believe they ask for IDs at the entrance to ensure only bonafide students attend classes. Apparently some time back some random Kenyans (non students) could attend selected classes for knowledge.  Seriously? This is very nice. If I knew it happens I would do it here n there in fields of my interest. Yes @Washiku. It used to happen at UON (especially evening classes) until they resulted to positioning watchmen outside the lecture halls to check IDs as people walk into class. You attend accounting classes (so that you can do accounts for your business), marketing, (business) law etc. Free of charge!!! Welcome to Nairobbery!!! To me, that would be the only positive thing about Nairobbery .... quenching the thirst for knowledge. Some of these outsiders were actually thieves who would come to pickpocket the students. I know THESE PEOPLE very well.  Portfolio: Sold
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