{"id":39362,"date":"2019-05-21T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenyan-education-secretary-visits-mount-kenya\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:15:46","slug":"kenyan-education-secretary-visits-mount-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenyan-education-secretary-visits-mount-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Education Secretary Visits Mount Kenya University Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Magoha praised the University for putting up a state of the art facility in Kicukiro district and offering programmes that addresses the human capital needs for Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>He said the campus was making a very practical and significant contribution to Rwanda\u2019s reconstruction process by offering courses such as nursing, tailored to spur economic growth and social integration among different communities in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>He urged the University to invest more in the area of Science Education. The Education Secretary was happy to note that Mount Kenya University is playing a key role in improving access to Higher Education in both Kenya and Rwanda and attracting students beyond the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMKUR is playing an important role in providing all the necessary resources to students while also improving the access to Higher Education in both Kenya and Rwanda,\u201d Prof. Magoha observed<\/p>\n<p>He praised Rwandan President His Excellency Paul Kagame for his stewardship and the country\u2019s fast economic growth following the political instability in early 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Magoha added that the country is on the right track of development and registering an impressive economic growth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29258 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_0067.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. George Magoha Signs the visitors&#039; book when he visited the campus. Looking on is the Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Academics, Dr. Mercilyn Kamande.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29257 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_0162-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Kenyan Education Secretary toured the School of Health Sciences facilities and Hospitality training\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday this week, Mount Kenya University Rwanda (MKUR) had a special guest. The Kenyan Education Secretary, Prof George Magoha while in Rwanda, made an impromptu visit to MKUR campus to assess its progress. <\/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-39362","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\/39362","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=39362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39362"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39362"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}