Tag: Education

Celebrating a Silver Jubilee of Innovation as Safaricom Turns 25

Last week, Safaricom celebrated its Silver Jubilee, marking 25 years since its official launch on 23rd October 2000. This week, Safaricom announced its partnership with Meta to bring the second submarine cable to Kenya. Through its subsidiary, Edge Network Services Limited, Meta has appointed Safaricom as a landing partner for a new high-capacity submarine cable […]...

Parliamentary Round-Up: Issue No. 42 of 2025

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY The National Assembly is on recess and will resume on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at 2.30 pm. THE SENATE Tuesday, November 28, 2025 (Afternoon Sitting) BILLS The County G...

22 Aug 2025

Untangling Kenya’s Corruption Crisis

Corruption is like a virus affecting both the private and public sectors, hindering development in Kenya. It remains high despite efforts to combat it. In Transparency International’s 2024 Corru...

25 Jul 2025

Africa’s Green Boom: How Impact Investors are Fuelling Sustainable Growth

Across the vast and dynamic continent of Africa, a powerful financial current is gaining momentum: impact investing. Moving beyond traditional philanthropy or pure profit-seeking, this approach deli...

16 Sep 2024

University funding model creates headaches, opportunities

The fate of Kenya’s tertiary institutions was one of the issues least talked about in the run-up to the General Election. None of the main candidates seemed interested in addressing a problem that h...

2 Aug 2024

Ticking the Right Boxes: Making a Case for an Africa-centric Approach to Artificial Intelligence

The world is in the throes of an unprecedented technological transformation driven by the relentless march of artificial intelligence (AI). Continents are racing to secure their place in this n...

18 Jul 2024

Regulating Harambees: Feasible or Not? Making the Case for a More Nuanced Strategy

The role of state officers in public fundraisers, often termed ‘harambees’ in Kenya, has been a subject of intense debate. In the wind of the Finance Bill, 2024 protests, concerns a...

17 Nov 2023

Safeguarding children online: The crucial role of digital literacy education in schools

We live in an era where children can skillfully operate smartphones and tablets even before they can walk, proving that our children are growing up in a digital environment unlike any other. Indeed, w...

31 Jul 2023

Enhancing Transition and Bridging the Gap? An Analysis of the Implications of the Re-introduction of Bridging Courses in Kenya

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann, pioneering Ame...

22 May 2023

Financing higher education: Why the new funding model might be the answer to solving financial crises in public universities

The demand for higher education in Kenya has increased despite inadequate funding from various stakeholders. This has led to the cost-sharing policy where the government and parents or stakeholders/do...

27 Jan 2023

Drawing positives from the recent KCSE results debacle

The recently released KCSE exam results have elicited both positive and negative reactions. On one hand, institutions and students who posted good results are in an exultant mood, and on the other, th...

13 Jan 2023

Ruto administration to merge higher education funding and placement to enhance efficiency amidst row over bursaries in counties

President William Ruto has denounced claims that he plans to get rid of the Higher Education Loan Board (HELB). Speaking during an interview with journalists at State House, Nairobi, on Friday, Januar...

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