Alumni targets 1000 students for scholarship

enekesa — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:33:18 +0000

It was a dream come true for some 52 bright and needy students from the University of Nairobi as they received scholarships from the University of Nairobi Alumni Association, (UONAA) on March 13, 2020 at the Vice Chancellors Parlour.

Speaking during the event, Alumni Association Chairman, Mr. Isaac Awuondo observed that about 4000 students have benefited from the yearly scholarships, since the Alumni Association was established in 2005. He said that the aim to support scholarship beneficiaries get internships, jobs, work study programs and mentorship from the Alumni. The scholarship opportunities are only open to first years, but overwhelming applications were received from continuing students, signaling the need to broaden the list of beneficiaries.

Mr. Awuondo, who doubles up as the Chairman, NCBA, decried the low number of ladies who applied for the scholarships. “There were only 23% of female applicants compared to 77% of male applicants. We need more sensitization to ensure that more female students benefit. We need a 50-50 representation of the beneficiaries,” he said.

52 beneficiaries of UONAA scholarship award 2020

“Today, 50 students get two million shillings, forty thousand shillings each, from six colleges and 16 schools. I want to thank the office of Dean of Students, who provided two scholarship opportunities bringing the number to 52,” he said. He observed that going forward, the Alumni Association would be organizing get together events where well established and prominent alumni, will get opportunity to network and support up to 1000 bright and needy students from their Alma matter.

The University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama, challenged the Alumni Association to play a leading role in branding the university, support public lectures, link up with career services and provide internships and mentorship to students. They were challenged to support student attachments, internships, work-study programs among others. The Alumni were also tasked to come up with data driven management system, that will enable the University to track and do trace studies of all the 250,000 plus alumni. “We need to know, how many of our alumni are CEOs, how many are in parastatals, government, industry, Parliament among others,” he said.

The University of Nairobi congratulates all the awardees.

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Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund Supports 11PhD Students

enekesa — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:05:02 +0000

The University of Nairobi is one among seven of the African Host Universities in the area of ‘Energy including renewables’ and has been allocated 11 PhDs students in 2019/2020 to pursue PhD in physics beginning May 2019/2020.

This selection was done under the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) by ICIPE. The objective of the RSIF project is to strengthen institutional capacity for quality and sustainable doctoral training, research and innovation in transformative technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through capacity development for the operation and management of the Scholarship, Research and Innovation Fund and Provision of scholarship and Research Grants in the Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology fields.

Speaking during a Courtesy call on the Vice Chancellor, World Bank Consultant, Dr. Danica Ramljak challenged the University to incorporate the aspect of innovation and entrepreneurship in teaching and learning. She said that the visit to the University was to look at the ecosystem of research and innovation and the system of training.

UoN VC, Prof. Kiama during a courtesy call by World Bank Consultant Dr.
Danick Ramljak with DVCRIE, Prof. Madara Ogot on Thursday Feb 20, 2020

Dr. Moses Osiru, RSIF RCU Manager, ICIPE, gave a brief history of how the project came to be, Ministers of Education from Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Senegal and Nigeria contributed towards this grant. Every year Kshs. 2M is given towards training of the PhD students. In kenya, University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University are the only participants in the project.

On his part, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kiama welcomed the visit by the delegation and emphasized on the innovation culture that UoN has been integrating in its systems and research. He highlighted the incentive to innovate that researchers are given when they publish, they’re given 8 points and when they patent their ideas through the Intellectual Property departments they are awarded 20 points.

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Alumni targets 1000 students for scholarship

Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund Supports 11PhD Students