{University of Kigali, a private University with a definitive operating license and aimed at providing high quality education in Rwanda has yesterday 12th Feb; signed an MoU with Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya so to collaborate in different areas of Education.
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Areas will include offering joint Executive Business Course especially advanced management programs (AMP), Joint Executive Masters of Business Administration Programs developed and, degree issued by Strathmore University, Cooperate in provision of Educational/training/Seminar Services and to expand the range of our products and services in Rwanda and to the region, Exchange of Lectures and students, Quality control and assurance at University of Kigali as well as Joint Consultancy services in Rwanda, and in the region using joint capacities of our faculties.
Strathmore University is a private university based in Nairobi, Kenya. Strathmore College was started in 1961, as an Advanced level sixth form College offering science and arts subjects, by a group of professionals who formed a charitable educational trust (now the Strathmore Educational Trust). Saint Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, inspired and encouraged them to start the College.
Strathmore has a particularly successful accounting program: 60% of the CPA finalists in Kenya coming from it in the past ten years, dating back from 2007.
It is the first university in Kenya to become ISO 9001:2000 certified. Strathmore is the highest ranked university in Kenya, according to the January 2009 webometrics ranking of world universities. At position 12 in Africa, Strathmore is the highest ranked university outside Egypt and South Africa.
Strathmore University, a leading University in the region, whose mission is to provide all-round quality education in an atmosphere of freedom and responsibility; excellence in teaching, research and scholarship; ethical and social development; and service to society.
It offers degrees in the following faculties: Faculty of Information Technology, School of Accountancy, School of Graduate Studies, School of Finance and Applied Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Management and Commerce, Strathmore Business School, Strathmore Law School, Centre for Tourism and Hospitality, Centre for Applied Research in Mathematical Sciences.
Commenting on the Signing of the MoU, The Vice Chancellor of the University of Kigali, Dr Alfred Nuwagaba explained the benefits the University expects from the MoU.
He Said: “UoK by signing this MOU with SBS expects to gain a lot from the academic seniority and expertise of SBS in terms of providing resource materials for lecturer and students and this helps to improve quality of higher education in the country”.
“UoK offering of joint undergraduate and post graduate studies with SBS is very good, because students will be offered the best degrees that will be competitive in the regional and international market.” Dr Nuwagaba continued.
As far as training concerned , Dr Alfred said: “SBS will train UoK faculty in modern pedagogy and this is good for quality improvement and enhancement”.
The MoU signed today, between University of Kigali and Strathmore University, heralds the beginning of a partnership that should see the quality of higher education, training, and consultancy boosted in Rwanda, so as to contribute to national capacity building that is in line with national ideologue of human resource based development.
Professor Nshuti Manasseh, one of the founder of University of Kigali said: “We are delighted to partner with Strathmore University as a way of having quality in our education. One way of having quality in our education is either creates it or our source it. In this case we are outsourcing the quality from Strathmore which can be labeled as the Harvard of Africa. “
He added that Lecturers will be coming to teach at UoK and students will be travelling to Strathmore to assure quality.
Dr. George Njenga on behalf of Strathmore stressed that the partnership with UoK will help transform Africa by virtues. He said that Africans must cook their own food. He was referring to the fact that Africans are responsible for their education and they must assure quality.
He reiterated that the partnership will be a win-win one, each partner gaining from the other.
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