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Nairobi and Mombasa polytechnic institutes will be elevated to universities offering technical studies.

This is likely to give them an border as trainers of pick for the local market.

Students graduating at the Republic Of Kenya Polytechnic, Nairobi. The establishment will be elevated to a university. Photo/FILE

They volition go on offering sheepskin courses of study of study and reserve their personal identities as skills-based trainers to separate them from traditional universities, states Science and Technology lasting secretary Crispus Kiamba.

Prof Kiamba also observes that treatments were on to guarantee Republic Of Kenya Science Teachers College, a campus of the University of Nairobi, goes on to offer sheepskin courses that had given it a niche as the best trainer of scientific discipline instructors for secondary schools.

To procure independency of the polytechnics, the Science ministry have drafted a Technology Bill that will see the establishments germinate into independent engineering universities. This arose from fearfulnesses that the move would kill their identities.

"We are finalising a new University of Technology Bill, which eventually will go University of Technology Act. This volition enable us set up engineering universities. But we don't desire these establishments to lose that of import middle-level instruction training, which is facing jobs in footing of adequacy, quality and relevance," Prof Kiamba says.

In position of this, the polytechnic institutes have got maintained their name calling even as they go constitutional colleges of two populace universities. Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Kenya Polytechnic Institute Institute Institute Institute goes Kenya Polytechnic University College, a component of the University of Nairobi, while Mombasa Polytechnic is now Mombasa Polytechnic University College, a component of Kenyatta University.

Prof Kiamba said the establishments would go full universities after three years.

Besides the two polytechnics, programs are underway to upgrade Eldoret and Kisumu polytechnic institutes to offer grade courses.

However, Education helper curate Kilemi Mwiria said the establishments would go on offering sheepskin courses of study of study and reserve their status.

"We will go on to offer sheepskin scientific discipline instructors at Kenya Science and it will not lose the position of what it have got been celebrated for," he said.

Prof Kiamba also noted that KSTC should have been made a component college to run semi-autonomously and go on with its tradition of preparation teachers.

"Discussions are still going on between the ministries of Education, Science and Technology and the University of Capital Of Kenya to reexamine this issue to safeguard the college's tradition and history of preparation scientific discipline teachers."

With the pickings over of the scientific discipline college, sheepskin instructors are trained at Kagumo and Kenya Technical Teachers Training College.

The three were among six establishments upgraded to either component or campuses of the populace universities.

Others include Kimathi University College, a component of Jomo Kenyatta University; Pwani University College, subdivision of Kenyatta University; Chuka and Kisii university colleges that were linked to Egerton University.

Earlier, Kitui Teachers Training College had been upgraded to a subdivision of Kenyatta University while Kabianga Forestry College became a campus of Moi University.

Dr Mwiria said the lift sought to spread out entree to university education.

For the first clip this year, about 16,000 pupils will be admitted to local public universities, a 60 per cent addition over the former years.

The route to university enlargement started with the publication of a sessional paper on education, preparation and research in 2005.

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Among other things, it called for upgrading of the polytechnic institutes to offer grade programs and constitution of more than universities.

This was followed with the taskforce on university instruction headed by Prof Kabiru Kinyanjui which also proposed the scene up of universities in Coast, Eastern and North Eastern provinces.

Mombasa Polytechnic Institute University College principal Akumu Owuor, who is preparing to have 100 pupils by January adjacent year, states the establishment was well- equipped to offer certain grade programmes.

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