Written by The Central Bank of Kenya on Tuesday, 14th April 2020 shared the details on the new Publication of the Credit Reference Bureau Regulations, 2020 and Additional Measures on Credit Information Sharing. The new regulations which are already in operation replaces the Credit Reference Bureau Regulations, 2013. The New Regulations which came into effect on the … Continue reading “Reprieve for Youths as CBK Scraps Fee for CRB Clearance Certificate & “Blacklists” 3rd Party Digital Loan Apps”
Ajira Digital Progamme, a government initiative to enable the youth seeking employment earn decent income through online work, with an ambitious goal of impacting over 1 million youth to be able to earn above minimum wage from the digital platform annually, was set rolling this week with the five-day Public Service Commission Ajira Digital Interns … Continue reading “250 Inducted for Ajira Internship Program”
Strathmore University Students won this years I&M Bank inter-UniChallenge. I&M bank launched their first hackathon contest with an inter campus capture the flag cybersecurity contest whereby different universities were invited to compete. The six universities that participated in the competition were Strathmore University, USIU, Daystar, Meru University, JKUAT and KCA. The contest was launched by … Continue reading “Strathmore wins I&M Bank inter-Uni Hackathon Challenge”
Eighteen students will be trained by Huawei Technologies and partner companies under an internship programme, the technology firm has announced. The beneficiaries who were selected during this year’s National Final of the Huawei ICT Competition will be posted at Huawei Kenya, Sybyl, BCK, China Mobile International, China Telecom Kenya, Smoothtel and Data Solutions, Cloud Productivity … Continue reading “Top Huawei ICT Competition Winners to Benefit from Huawei Internship Programme”
The United Nations and Mount Kenya University (MKU) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that allows MKU students to directly deploy its students as volunteers within the UN system. UN Volunteers officials led by Executive coordinator, Olivier Adam and the MKU fraternity led by Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof Peter Wanderi signed the deal at … Continue reading “Mount Kenya University to become First African Country to Deploy Students directly as UN Volunteers”
Kisii University has collaborated with Huawei Inc. through the prestigious Huawei ICT Academy program to provide the students with hands-on skills and market-ready skills. Kisii University students can now register and train in all the Huawei Certifications including the Huawei Certified Network Associates. Speaking during the launch, Ms. Teresa Abuya underscored the need to establish … Continue reading “Kisii University Partners with Huawei to be a Certified Huawei ICT Academy Training Center”
BBC Director-General Tony Hall has announced Aim High – a new trainee scheme for journalists with disabilities in Kenya. This follows development initiatives to train the next generation of African journalists and producers to world class standards. Aim High is an 18 month long intensive and highly practical training and development programme funded and run … Continue reading “BBC Launches Aim High – a new trainee scheme for journalists with disabilities in Kenya.”
There will be no recruitment of staff in the next three years unless a ministry, state department or agency (MDA) gets the approval of the Treasury. This is according to Treasury CS Ukur Yatani, who says the Governemnt wants the saved funds prioritised to drive the Big Four agenda “to build on the progress made … Continue reading “A 3-year Hiring Freeze Imposed on Government Agencies by Treasury”
In his ruling, Justice John Mativo directed the upcoming Moi university graduation to go on as planned. A group of students had earlier moved to the court intending to stop the graduation scheduled to take place on August 22, 2019 According to Justice John Mativo, the final ruling which will be delivered on August 20 … Continue reading “Moi University graduation to continue, court rules amid missing marks saga.”
The merger of 38 public universities which was proposed by the Education CS, Professor Magoha will take long after the court brought the process into a halt not until different stakeholders agree over several issues. During her ruling, Lady Justice Maurine Onyango requested the Ministry of Education to reach out to University Academic Staff Union … Continue reading “Court halts merger of public universities.”