[kictanet] University Education in Traditional Computer Science.

[Catherine Adeya]

Tim,

But I also wonder do the Skills Taskforce team have any statistics that would 
further help Collin's concern. There are many of these people out there in 
Kenya. 


Collins, that Registrar needs to go back to 'school'.

Nyaki




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From: Mwololo Tim <timwololo at gmail.com>
To: elizaslider at yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 2:11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] University Education in Traditional Computer Science.

Collins,
This registrar must be very ignorant - one wonders how he became a registrar if 
he does not know what happens in the few universities we have. We have had PhDs 
in Computer Science/Informatics since the 1980s/90s in this country, largely 
trained abroad. In our School of Computing and Informatics, we have a number 
PhDs and we have produced a number through our PhD program. I am at the moment 
supervising 4 PhD students and my colleagues are supervising others as well. In 
addition, we have graduated tens of Masters and Postgraduate Diploma graduates 
year on year since the 1980s. I have not done any research on the numbers in all 
the universities but this was an alarming statement and hence the quick 
reaction. Please be careful about your sources of information.  tim waema


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:40 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins at gmail.com> wrote:

An interesting discussion i had this morning with one of the registrars in a 
public university presents a very dire and wanting situation in education in 
Computer Science. (Pure & applied) whose conclusion was pretty much that there 
just arent postgraduates in computer science in the country. It came as a 
shocker and since my background is in Engineering and IT, i am inclined to 
ask... 

>
>What is the status of manpower in the country in the discipline? how many people 
>can qualify as lecturers, associate lecturers and professors in the science? 
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