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Mombasa Polytechnic University College
mukiha
#11 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:38:36 AM
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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
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mukiha
#12 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:42:58 AM
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Lolest! wrote:
I dont like this trend. Where will we train diploma holders in technical fields?


This question has been asked many times since Egerton college was take over by UoN in the mid 1980s... and JKCAT by KU in the early 1990s.

The answer is that the colleges taken over do still continue offering diploma programmes only that they are no longer examined by KNEC, but by the university senates.

Go to Egerton and JKUAT and you will find many diploma courses still running. Same with the sily sounding Polytechnic University Colleges.

However, I am not sure whether they maintain the numbers of students in the diploma courses as before the upgrading.
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Njung'e
#13 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:49:28 AM
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@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.
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