[kictanet] One subject, varying quality - We lack an accreditation system for ICT courses

[David Otwoma]

Morning Nyaki,

Please look at the bottom of the last pages of Standard and Nation daily
papers for details/addresses of who publishes the newspapers. As concerns
validation try contacting the editors for answers as we do not have shares
yet. Hope you do not get hyper from the articles as they do inform most of
us and inspire us to check out what we also doubt.

Have a great week.

Kind regards,

David

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  David,
>
> Who writes this stuff and how do they validate their sources!!!! Eish!!!!
>
> Nyaki
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* David Otwoma <otwomad at gmail.com>
> *To:* elizaslider at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:32:03 AM
> *Subject:* [kictanet] One subject, varying quality - We lack an
> accreditation system for ICT courses
>
> .....universities offer many degrees but their quality and market demand
> differ......
>
> Although nearly all universities offer degrees, only the University of
> Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and
> Strathmore have Master’s programmes and only UON and Jkuat teach at doctoral
> level.
>
> There is a diminishing number of staff with PhDs in ICT departments.
> According to Prof Rodrigues, UoN has the highest number of full-time
> lecturers with PhDs in ICT that stands at eight of 18, while Jkuat has three
> of six, which is the same number for Strathmore.
>
> Kenyatta University has nine full-time but none of them have a PhD or an
> equivalent qualification, while none of the Kabarak’s eight lecturers have a
> PhD. Two of six of United States International University has doctoral
> degrees.
> Many lecturers have no experience as ICT professionals as engineers,
> software developers or in the emerging area of computer and network
> security.
>
> See
> http://www.eastandard.net/education/InsidePage.php?id=1144017693&cid=316
> for full story
>
> --
> David Otwoma,
> Chief Science Secretary,
> National Council for Science and Technology,
> Utalii House 9th Floor,
> Mobile tel: +254 722 141771,
> Office tel: +254 (0)20 2346915,
> P. O. Box 5687 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
> email: otwomad at gmail.com & otwoma at ncst.go.ke
> www.ncst.go.ke
>
>
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