...Was going through today's DN and saw this advert on courses being offered at Mombasa Polytechnic University College. Cant the polytechnic, university, college or whatever it is board look for a decent name of the institution. Ama tuko Mombasa!

@Ms Mkenya,
It's not Nairobi poly...It,s Kenya Poly.It goes by the same weird name ....Kenya polytechnic university college.....silly name.Why not Kenya institute of technology or Mombasa institute of technology?

The name university isn't a must.....A good example is the prestigious MIT.....Massachusett Institute of Technology.

I see nothing wrong with that.when it becomes a fully fledged uni it shall be mombasa poly university,to retain its identity as a technical institute.

And there is also one of the universities Baba Jimmy attended - London School of Economics [and Political Science].

But I get your point. Marketing to some uninformed Kenyans might be a problem if they don't see the word "University"!

Yani you guys have just discovered that Msa Poly and Kenya Poly have become university colleges [with silly names to boot]?

Don't you know that they are almost graduating their pioneer degree students?

When the names were published about 3 years ago, I remember asking in the media whether these are polytechnics, or universities or colleges. if they had asked me I would have named them respectively Kenya university college and Mombasa University college... and when they finally get their charters, they would simply drop the "college" tag to become The Kenya University and the Mombasa University, or better still, university of Kenya and University of Mombasa - to keep in line with the traditional format when naming universities after a place

@Mukiha,
To add to your sentiments,all former technical schools were turned into technology institutes and they are quite many.If i may remember,there is Kitale Tech,Kaiboi,Rift Valley (Eldoret),Sigalala,Kisumu,Mawego,Kabete,Nairobi,Thika,Meru,Nyeri and Machakos tech...Informaly,there was Masaai Tech......That's quite a number given that initially,there were only two Tech institutes...I stand to be collected.