<div>Crystal, you have hit the right note.</div>
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<div>Maybe the government might have lobbied KASNEB or KNEC to come up with a more affordable computer basics course, where even students can learn on their own and book exams, as it happens to KNEC and KASNEB examinations.</div>
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<div>The reason cheap colleges continue to attract willing and desperate students is because they are able to charge KES4,000 to offer the bogus packages.</div>
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<div>regards</div>
<div>Mwendwa Kivuva<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 31 July 2010 14:18, Crystal Watley Kigoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crystal@voicesofafrica.org">crystal@voicesofafrica.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I have no issue with the ICDL as a curriculum. I do however have an<br>issue with how much it costs to be a training and testing center and<br>
the prices charged for certification. Is there something the<br>government can do in that regard?<br><br>Best,<br><br>Crystal<br>
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<div class="h5"><br>On 7/30/10, robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I would like to apologise to Dr. Ndemo for giving the impression that his<br>
> team<br>> had not done their homework when they recommended that ICDL be the official<br>> computer proficiency certification.<br>><br>> As is said it is only after you have walked in a man's shoes can you then<br>
> criticise him, I recently looked at a training manual from one of the local<br>> computer colleges that was 10 pages long and covered word, excel,<br>> powerpoint,<br>> access, frontpage and IE. The exam for each subject was done after 1 day of<br>
> training, in the case of word it included mailmerge.<br>><br>> Each application was covered on less than 2 pages and the entire course<br>> takes 10<br>> days, Dr. Ndemo the sooner you can operationalise the ICDL issue the sooner<br>
> students will stop loosing money to quacks and we shall return to the point<br>> of<br>> making computer users truly IT proficient.<br>><br>> Regards<br>> Robert Yawe<br>> KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>> Kenya<br>><br>><br>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br><br></div></div>--<br>Crystal "Naliaka" Watley Kigoni<br>
Executive Director<br>Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development<br><a href="mailto:crystal@voicesofafrica.org">crystal@voicesofafrica.org</a><br><a href="http://www.voicesofafrica.org/" target="_blank">http://www.voicesofafrica.org/</a><br>
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