Many years ago...

decades? centuries? or just years? we should then give mku some centuries for it to reach acceptable level then?

but i thought C+ is also what people need to get into parallel med course in Nrb uni as long as your cluster subject is fine? I do not get what is this dust about MKU because for example,some people went to Uni with a B and then when private unis came ,they had lower cut off points for same courses eg daystar and USIU ,right?.So the issue is not about just MKU but all universities,the standards are wanting. From students copying exams,to paying people to do their projects,to offering inapppriate learning. Modes for courses that need handson/practical work etc

Nairobi uni? No chance with a C+. An A- would be lucky and even then they must have flawless math, sciences and languages. Parallel for UON Med is fiercely competitive.

This is where I disagree with our professional registration boards. Why should they wait for a university to launch a course and admit students before denying registration to the students?

On top of this, the medical board's website lists KU medical school as an approved medical training institution but MKU's isn't anywhere to be seen. RINK

Very sure, UoN has a very good Medicine program with worldwide recognition. It also has better equipment and very accomplished lecturers compared to the others. I assure you getting admission is very hard.

I think such initiatives should be encouraged instead of looking down on them. There is no way the quality we would want to see in such facilities would be achieved if they dont start off in the first place. Instead of our patients going to India and taking all that money there, local investments should be encouraged and strict measures put in place to ensure quality n continuous research. If more n more such investments are done, there is also a chance cost will come down n quality increase due to competition.

Well done MKU for starting the way.

Its in Kisumu. Was started by Kisumu Arch-Diocese Catholic Church.

I think this is a very good development for Kenya. The shortage for docotrs and other trained medical personnel is acute. One of the problems is the misplaced assumption that only A+ students can hack it in medical school and make good doctors. The fact is medicine as a whole is learnt by experience (apprenticeship) after medical school that is why a CO from KMTC who had a C- and 10 years expereince in a good hospital may treat you better than your A+ fresh graduate from med school. In my opinion for the few doctors we have to stop seeing themselves as demi-gods, students with less accomplished qualifications have to enroll and beat them at it.

FYI I know a parallel student that enrolled 2012 with B plain at UoN

I hope in future every county will turn their main public hospital into a referral and teaching hospital so as to fill the gap of required medical professionals not just for Kenya but the world a la Philippines

People can be daft... or should i say challenged in matters history. Ati Public universities laughed at Havard... ABK!!! nkt!!!

I am generally concerned about the quality of graduates in all our institutions.. and i just wonder. if facilities and lectures are such crap in established universities. how good or bad are they in commercial ones?

as for A students C student arguments....
Two children from same village/town with equal chances.. wewe ulianguka kcpe.. kisha ukaanguka kcse.. what the heck makes you think you can grasp medicine/law/engineering after 12years of schooling simply because a university has opened up taking D students for medicine....
What happened to you? brain transplant?
lets accept natural merit, learn to respect diversity and stick to our lanes.
We dont see doctors begging to be Marigas and Oliechs.. infact they wear jerseys with their names and throng bars over weekends to watch not so booksmart sportsmen do their thing on the pitch.
why is it that C students, in Kenya specifically, all of a sudden feel they can be neurosurgeons with admissions to commercial colleges... ?
The only country ive heard where exams dont determine your uni course is Denmark.. but they have excellent facilities and standardised education, children pick their path as early as basic school.. and yet still, its by natural selection that those who end up doing traditional courses like law n medics are the A students.
What we should discourage is forcing every A student to do these traditional courses. not all want to be docs n lawyers.. there are good kindregarden teachers in there with a passion for it..

Nooo!! NO!! NO! to each his own.. and we are different..