CISCO Networking Systems is an international organization that offers training and certification in computer netwroking. Courses offered by the CISCO Networking Systems include IT Essentials CompTIA A+, CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA), CISCO Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and Health Information Networking.

The following are some institutions offering CISCO Training courses in Kenya:

• African Advanced Level Telecommunications Institute (AFRALTI)

• African Institute of Research and Development Studies

• Amboseli Institute of Hospitality and Technology

• Computer Pride Learning Centre

• Diamond Systems Ltd

• Eldoret Aviation College

• Foundation Institute of Professionals

• Infotech Training Centre

• Institute of Advanced Technology

• Jackson & Associates Banking & Business School

• Kenya College of Accountancy

• Mombasa Polytechnic

• Mombasa-Tech Computer Training Centre

• Nairobi Technical Training Institute

• New Horizons Computer Learning Centre

• Nyeri Technical Training Institute

• Tracom College

• Zetech College

 Universities

• Africa Nazarene University

• Jomo University of Agriculture & Technology

• Kampala University

• KCA university

• Multi Media University

• Pioneer International University

• Strathmore University

• Tshwane University of Technology

Kenya Methodist University is a chartered University in Kenya. The Kenya Methodist University in Kenya was awarded its Charter on June 28th 2006 allowing it to offer a wide range of Post Graduate courses in Kenya, Undergraduate courses in Kenya, Diploma courses in Kenya, Certificate courses in Kenya, and Pre – University Programmes in Kenya in addition to Professional Courses in Kenya.

Applications for Undergraduate Courses in Kenya Methodist University are open at the beginning of each trimester in January, May and September. Courses in Kenya Methodist University on offer are also taught under Full time (day), part time (evening) or distance learning modes. Admission process for undergraduate courses in Kenya Methodist University starts with the prospective student in Kenya choosing a course from the many courses offered by the Kenya Methodist University two schools and three distinct faculties. After completing an application form from Kenya Methodist University, the applicant is expected to return the form accompanied by the payment of application fees (Ksh 1,000 or US $20 for citizens from countries outside East Africa).

The prerequisites for these undergraduate courses in Kenya Methodist University is KCSE C+ (plus) or equivalent with the exception of courses under the School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Kenya Methodist University i.e.(Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery , Bachelor of Science in Community Health, Bachelor of Science in Health Nutrition and Dietetics , Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences and Bachelor of Science in Nursing).The prerequisites for these courses in School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Kenya Methodist University is KCSE C+ (plus) or equivalent in addition to at least a B plain in chemistry, biology and English, so long as no two subjects in the cluster category shall have a score below a C+ (plus) or equivalent.

Under the Faculty of Computing and Informatics in Kenya Methodist University, the courses offered are  Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Information Technology and Bachelor of Science in Information Science. Under the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences in Kenya Methodist University the degree courses in Kenya are Bachelor of Arts in Counseling, Bachelor of Education and Counseling, Bachelor of Education – Primary Option and Bachelor of Theology.

Under the Faculty of Science and Technology in Kenya Methodist University the degree courses are Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology.

MOI SIONGIROI GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated in the interior part of Bomet, in Siongiroi center in Rift Valley Kenya. It is purely a girl’s school. It has three streams per each form with a maximum number of students of 40 per stream. It has been the best school in the entire Kericho area. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It has a well trained teachers and good management. There is high security within the school that enables the students to study well in a conducive environment. It offers best and healthy meals to its staffs and the students. It is well known with its red uniform choice.

LONGISA BOYS HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated in the small town called Longisa along Bomet-Narok road on its left side; it is the biggest boy’s school in the region and in Rift Valley Kenya. It is purely a boy’s school. It has six streams per each form with a maximum of 50 students per stream. It is well performing and consistent boy’s school in the region. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It has a high security. It also has a shop within the school. It offers the best and quality meals to its staffs and the students. It is well known by its green uniforms.

TENWEK HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated near Tenwek Mission Hospital in Rift Valley Kenya. It is purely a boy’s school. It has six streams per each form with a maximum of 50 students per stream. It is well performing and consistent boy’s school in the region. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It also has a shop within the school. It offers the best and quality meals to its staffs and the students. It builds leadership in the students by giving them the leadership position. It is well known by its dark green and grey trousers.

KONGOTIK GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated along Bomet-Narok road on the left side just before Longisa town in Rift Valley Kenya. It is purely a girl’s school. It has three streams per each form with a maximum number of students of 50 per stream. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It is a well-disciplined school in the entire county.

 

MOI TEA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated within the James Finlay tea Factory in Rift Valley Kenya. Its entrance branches just immediately after Hass station before the entrance of Kericho town. It is purely a girl’s school. It has two streams per each form with a maximum number of students of 50 per stream. It has been the best school in the entire Kericho area. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It has a well trained teachers and good management. There is high security within the school that enables the students to study well in a conducive environment. It offers best and healthy meals to its staffs and the students.

KERICHO HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated in the small town called Nyagacho on the western part of the town; it is the biggest school in the region and in Rift Valley Kenya. It is purely a boy’s school. It has six streams per each form with a maximum of 50 students per stream. It is well performing and consistent boy’s school in the region. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It has a high security. It has 11 dormitories named: Bowles1&2, Kipchoge1&2, Harambee1&2, Abosi1&2, Tengecha1&2 and Samoei House. It also has a shop within the school. It offers the best and quality meals to its staffs and the students.

KABIANGA HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated near Kabianga University in Rift Valley Kenya. It is purely a boy’s school. It has six streams per each form with a maximum of 50 students per stream. It is well performing and consistent school in the region. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It also has a shop within the school. It offers the best and quality meals to its staffs and the students. It builds leadership in the students by giving them the leadership position.

KIPSIGIS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

It is situated along Bomet-Kericho road on the left side just before Kisumu road in Rift Valley Kenya. It is purely a girl’s school. It has two streams per each form with a maximum number of students of 80 per stream. It has registered good K.C.S.E results over the past years. It promotes community’s culture by coming up with Cultural day in the school calendar. It is a well-disciplined school in the entire county.

In the universities or in any institution of learning, the library is one of the major resource center that should be available for the services of all the students, learners and teaching staff in that particular institution. Many learners will use the library in trying to research on different type of educative materials, resources and all other types of study that they may want to conduct in the library. The library should therefore be equipped by all the materials that the learners need from books of different subjects and levels, various research tools and equipment as well as other material that will facilitate in the smooth learning, teaching and research procedures.

Murang’a University college is therefore one of the universities in Kenya which is located in the central part of Kenya but their students population cuts across the 47 counties of Kenya as they admits students from all the country. As an institution of learning and research, they have established a world-class library that ensure that the students can be able to learn and research for their varied research topics comfortably without straining for the reading materials.

Murang’a University College Library is an ultra-modern library offering in one central location, all resources necessary to support teaching, learning and research, making the library the intellectual hub of the institution as well as to the people within the environs of Murang’a University College. The library promotes and maintain a variety of quality services that will support the programmes of the university college and encourage optimal use of the information resources.

At the library of Murang’a University College, they try to ensure that they provide scholarly information resources that support teaching, learning and research as the personnel value the users regardless of their level of their expertise. Through their services, they ensure that the services that are offered are of the highest quality possible and make the most efficient use of the scarce resource as they plan for the challenges which will confront their services in the future. The library at Murang’a University College hope to provide up-to-date information for teaching staff, researchers and students, manage the library resources efficiently, develop the collaborative culture between the schools and the library as well as enhance library facilities for improved information services.

Admission Procedure for the use of the Library

For the use of the library resources and materials, the interested students should ensure that they are registered to the library service and the registration process require a completed registration form obtained from the circulation librarian. After the completion of the form, the applicant must sign the declaration to abide by regulations as well as ensure that their contact details given on the registration form is up-to-date and correct.

After the registration process, the applicants can access the library resources without no charges. However, non-members of the university even if registered, are required to produce a recommendation letter from the local chief or employer and this should be accompanied by a non-refundable fee of Ksh 50 per day.

Book Borrowing Regulations

In order to borrow a book from this library, the right is accorded to the registered members only and certain materials such as newspapers cannot be borrowed for use outside the library. Other regulation involved in the borrowing of reading materials from the library are that no library item should be taken out of the library unless it is officially issued, the user name whose the material is under shall be solely responsible for the return of the material, the information resources which are not available in the library may be obtained through the inter-library loan once requests are made to the circulation librarian, all the students may borrow 3 books, teaching staff 4 and the non-teaching staff can borrow at most 3 books and a member who loses a University ID card cannot be served or gain entry to the library unless on presentation of the valid documentation to support the loss.

 

Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya and contributes to about 80 percent of the country’s economy and without much investment in this field, it will lead to hunger and other implications associated with it. Agriculture involves both the rearing of animals and plants. Majority of Kenyans are practicing plant and animal production and hence there is need to train them in courses pertaining animals and plants.

The University of Nairobi through the faculty of veterinary sciences has establish courses which specializes in animal field at masters and doctor of philosophy (Ph.D) level and this ensures establishment of competent people in field of animal production hence there will be high production in that field (animal). The faculty of veterinary sciences is under the college of Agriculture and veterinary science in the University of Nairobi and this college is located on the Kabete campus (one of the campuses of University of Nairobi) which is approximately 15 kilometers from Nairobi CBD (central business district).

The masters’ programme offered by the University of Nairobi in the faculty of veterinary sciences include:

• Master of Veterinary Surgery.
• Master of Veterinary Medicine.
• Master of Veterinary Theriogenology.
• Master of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics.
• Master of Veterinary Public Health.

The other masters’ programmes offered by this faculty are masters of Science (M.Sc.) in:

• Applied Microbiology.
• Fish Science.
• Reproductive Biology.
• Leather Technology.
• Poultry Science.
• Pharmacology and Toxicology.
• Clinical Pathology and Diagnosis.
• Animal genetics and Breeding.
• Applied Veterinary Parasitology.
• Animal Nutrition and Feed Science.
• Wildlife Health Management.
• Livestock Production System.
• Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology.
• Veterinary Pathology and Diagnosis.
• Comparative Mammalian Physiology.
• Natural Product and Bioprospecting.
• Veterinary Anatomy and Cell Biology.

The doctor of philosophy (Ph.D) programmes offered at the University of Nairobi under the faculty of veterinary sciences includes the Ph.D courses in all masters programmes listed above. If a person wants to enquire for more information pertaining the postgraduate programmes offered in the University of Nairobi faculty of veterinary science, he/she can contact the Dean of the faculty through the postal address Box 29053 – 00625, Nairobi, email address [email protected] or the university website at www.uonbi.ac.ke. You can also all the deans’ office using the telephone numbers 020 2181370 or 6310007

 

   Education is the key of success in life.Many Kenyans have realized the value of education and since employment in the country is very competitive and due to the need of qualified skilled personnels,Kenya is an advancing country in providing quality education to students and meeting the need of skilled professionals in the country.

   The Technology Development Centre(TDC) is one of the institutions that has taken into consideration the essence of technical and industrial education. It is a public institution which was established in 2009 at    AthiRiver,30 km from Nairobi ,Eastern province along the Nairobi-Namanga highway to the right opposite the Export Processing Zone(EPZ),near Kenya Power company.It was established to cater for industrial and technical training education by the National Industrial Training Authority(NITA) under ministry of labour and human development The project was sponsored by the republic of Korea by University of Korea of Technology and Development.The Technology Development Centre is committed to excellence in industrial and technical training.

Courses offered at Technology Development Centre

The Technology Development Centre offers both diplomas and certificates and there are several courses offered which include:

• Diploma in Electrical and Electronics engineering(electrical and electronics-power option)
• Certificate in Mechanical engineering(mechanical engineering-production option)
• Diploma in Human resource management
• Certificate in Information and communication technology(ICT)
• Diploma in Automative engineering
• Diploma Supply chain management
• Certificate in Business studies and management
• Certificate in Clothing technology
• Diploma in Fashion and design
• Certificate in Automative Engineering
• Diploma in Industrial microbiology
• Diploma in Business studies
• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Fabrication Technology and metallurgy
• Diploma in Electronics and Computing systems(Electronics)
• Certificate in Motor vehicle mechanics
• Certificate in Computer Electronics
• Certificate in Computer hardware
• Certificate in Computer software
• Certificate in advanced motor vehicle mechanics
• Certificate in Basic TV/VCR repair

Facilities available at the Technology Development Centre

• Communication technology centre
• Student hostels
• Fitness centre(gym)
• Recreational grounds
• Automotive auto care
• Conference centre
• Accomodation facilities
• Dispensary

Exam bodies

TDC students undertake exams from the following exam bodies;

-KASNEB

-KNEC

-ICDL

-NITA

-City and Guilds

Mode of study

-Part-time

-Full-time

-Evening

 

 

 

Education in Kenya have taken another level in terms of its growth and technological embracement and usage in the content delivery. This has seen many people opt for education and especially higher education. Many have got the interest to join higher education learning institutions to mostly acquire the vocational skills that they offer and thereby increasing the demand of education. For the meeting of this high educational demand, a lot of institutions have been established to accommodate and offer education to the students and overall people interested in it.

Machakos University College was thereby been established to ensure that the students are offered with the courses that they need for their future lives. This university college was established in the lower Eastern Area and it is a constituent college of Kenyatta University. Since their establishment, the university has set up various schools and departments which ensure that they offer the different courses under the areas of specialization and more closely to their students. The most commonly and well-established schools and which offer the courses in this university include;

School of Engineering

This school based in the main campus offer engineering and construction related courses which include Certificate, Diploma and Undergraduate courses. The various courses offered are Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Diploma in Motor Vehicle Engineering, Diploma in Building Construction Technology, Diploma in Civil Engineering, Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Production option) as well as certificate courses in Building Construction Technology, Certificate in Wood Technology and a Certificate in Plumbing Technology.

School of Business

This is one of the most developed school in the university as it is able to offer Post graduate courses as opposed to various other departments. The courses that they majorly offer include Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration in the options of Marketing, Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, Accounting and Finance, Post graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Diploma in Human Resource Management, Diploma in Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Diploma in Office Management, Diploma in Sales and Marketing, Diploma in Public Relation and Diploma in Corporate Management. Other courses offered under this school are a Certificate in Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Certificate in Sales and Marketing and ATC level I & II and CPA sections 1-6.

School of Education

Education is the favorite career to many and therefore this school is well developed to offer the various education academic programmes. The programmes include Master of Education in options of Educational planning, Educational Administration, Economics of Education, Curriculum Development and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Education (Maths and Business), Bachelor of Education (Maths/Physics), Bachelor of Arts ( Kiswahili/CRE/History/Geography/English Literature) as well as Post graduate Diploma in Education, Diploma in Education (Science), Diploma in Education (Arts), Diploma in Early Childhood Development Education and a Certificate in Early Childhood Development Education.

School of Computing and Applied Sciences

As the world in experiencing revolutions in the technological world, many institutions have embraced and use technology in education. Machakos University college has therefore developed a department based on that and offer courses related to technology and hospitality management and involve Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Hospitality and Tourism Management as well as Diploma courses in Information Communication Technology, Science and Laboratory Technology, Hospitality Management, Fashion Design and Modelling and Certificate in Hospitality and Tourism Management and Certificate in House Keeping, Front Office and Laundry.

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

This is the recent developed department and has therefore not been advanced in terms of the courses they offer. Their courses are numerous and include Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Development Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, English and Linguistics, Geography, History, Archeology and Political Studies, Diploma in Information Studies and a Diploma in Community Development.

Nyeri Technical Training institute is a national training institute in Kenya. It was started in 1999 as a technical secondary school after which it was changed to the current training institute in 1986. It falls among the technical training institutes under the ministry of higher education science and technology in Kenya. Various courses are offered in this institute at craft, certificate, diploma and higher diploma levels. Holiday and part time programs are run in this institute. Nyeri Technical Training institute is located in Nyeri town along Mumbi road.

Courses offered:

• Diploma in Applied biology

• Diploma in automotive Engineering

• Diploma in accountancy

• Diploma in Analytical chemistry

• Diploma in banking and finance

• Diploma in ATC I &II

• Diploma in clothing technology

• Diploma in Building and construction Engineering

• Diploma in cooperative management

• Diploma in Electrical and electronic engineering

• Diploma in Community and social work

• Diploma in Business administration

• Diploma in Business management

• Diploma in Food science technology

• Diploma in Library and information studies

• Diploma in information communication technology

• Diploma in human resources management

• Diploma in marketing Management

• Diploma in medical laboratory technology

• Diploma in pharmacy

• Diploma in purchasing and supplies management

• Diploma in sales and marketing

• Diploma in solar system installation and accessories

• Diploma in social work and community development

• Diploma in telecommunication technology

• Diploma in garment making

• Diploma in library and information services

• Diploma in motor vehicle mechanics

• Certificate in AutoCAD

• Certificate in bridging courses in Biology, Chemistry and English.

• Certificate in cake making and decoration

• Certificate in electrical installation

• Certificate in electronics engineering

• Certificate in Mathematics and Physics

• Certificate in food and beverage

• Certificate in Information communication technology

• Certificate in Basic cookery

For more information contact:

Address: P.O Box 465 Nyeri Kenya.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 072447942