[kictanet] University Education in Traditional Computer Science.

[ESTHER MUCHIRI]

Nyaki

 

Unfortunately the data collected by the Skills Taskforce with the help of
Prof. Waema mainly focused on the first degree not postgraduate. I however
agree with Tim that we have quite a number of postgraduates in IT and
Engineering from all our universities. It is unfortunate that such data is
not easily available for Collins and others who are interested in such
information. Perhaps the Ministry of Education, IDRC (or other donor) or
KICTB need to explore funding for such a study and the development of a
National Skills database? 

 

Esther

 

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Science.

 

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? 

-- 
Regards, 

Collins Areba.

Strategic Operations. 
Center for Renewable Alternatives
Old Ferry Road, off Msa Malindi Rd, | Kilifi, Kenya. +254 720 516758 /734
696821 | skype/gtalk/twitter:  arebacollins

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