{"id":35921,"date":"2017-09-27T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mount-kenya-university-to-train-rwandair-staff\/"},"modified":"2017-09-27T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:07:08","slug":"mount-kenya-university-to-train-rwandair-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mount-kenya-university-to-train-rwandair-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Kenya University to train RwandAir Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move will see MKUR design relevant market driven programmes for RwandAir in order to train their staff at reasonable rates to be competitive in the global aviation industry.  The university shall train and award degrees in Bachelors, Masters and other qualifications, as agreed by the parties and in line with local and international standards.<\/p>\n<p>In a communication to the media, the Chairman, Board of Directors of Mount Kenya University Rwanda ltd Prof. Simon Gicharu hailed the partnership and promised to support the initiative for it to succeed and make it role a model in the East African region. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe note with admiration the airline\u2019s ambitious commitment to growth and offering quality service that has made it stand out as the airline of choice in the region. As a university committed to excellence and empowering generations through education, we want to be part of the airline\u2019s continuous growth by offering quality training to its staff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Higher Education Institutions are encouraged to pursue industry linkages in their training programmes which will see the two parties promote mentoring, internship and hands-on learning opportunities for the aviation student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese relationships will assist in establishing career programmes and internships that will lead to well paying skilled jobs as well as economic development for the country,\u201d Gicharu said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21884 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-mku_chairman-001-3.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Simon Gicharu, Chairman, Board of Directors\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Since its establishment in the country eight years ago, the university has entered into a host of M.O.Us with a variety of companies including Lemigo hotel in support of hospitality training.<\/p>\n<p>With a state of the art campus in Kagarama, Kicukiro district, the University is aligning its programmes in support of Rwanda\u2019s vision 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Kenya University Rwanda (MKUR) mid this month signed a memorandum of understanding (M.O.U) with RwandAir in order to harmonize and strengthen partnership between the two parties in the field of academic training and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35921"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35921"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}