In an opening ceremony of a two-day study in Europe Fair, Ambassadors and representatives of countries in the EU gathered to talk to students about opportunities to study in countries in the European Union.
The University of Nairobi Staff have been notified of the declaration of assets exercise between November 2017- October 2019 as dictated by Public Officer’s Ethics Act 2003, the code of conduct for Public Universities and the University of Nairobi Code of Conduct and Staff.
All members of staff are requested to collect the form from their College registrars from Monday November 11, 2019 and return the duly completed form not later than November 29, 2019.
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Human Resource and Administration, (DVCHRA), Prof. Stephen Kiama signed the 2019/2020 Performance contract as DVCHRA and ag. Deputy Vice Chancellor, Finance Planning and Development (DVCFPD). Directors of departments under the two DVC offices also signed their PCs with him on Monday November 5, 2019.
The signing ceremony between Inter Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF) of the Federation of Kenya Employers and the three staff Unions; Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU); Kenya Universities Staff Union(KUSU), and Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions and Hospital(KUDHEIHA) Workers, was a culmination of intense negotiations between the parties. “This was a historic CBA that was signed without an industrial strike and within its cycle,” said Prof.
The second edition of the University of Nairobi Research Week presents an exciting array of goodies to choose from.
These include 13 conferences covering across a broad array of disciplines and 2 workshops. Abstract submissions and registration are currently open for the Research Week which will be held from October 22-25, 2019.
In addition, the organizing committee driven by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Enterprise, Prof. Madara Ogot, is reaching out to sponsors and partners to support the Research Week.
Following a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi Fund; held on Tuesday, October 1, 2019, the applicants whose names are listed below, were awarded the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi Fund Scholarship for the 2019/2020 academic year.
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The University of Nairobi and partners held celebrations to mark the International Day against Alcohol and Drug Abuse and illicit trafficking (IDADA) 2019. IDADA is observed on 26th June, a day that was agreed upon 30 years ago by the United Nations general assembly.
Plans are underway to establish the University of Nairobi Institute for Blue Economy and Ocean Studies (UoN-IBEOS). This was revealed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Prof. Julius Ogeng’o at the handing over of the modular boards by that were used at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference to the University by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prof. Ogeng’o was speaking on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor.
In a first of its kind, the University Management hosted a Professoriate Assembly which brought together all the professors in the University of Nairobi on Thursday May 30, 2019.
Disability is an adjective and not a verb; the correct phrase is a person (s) living with disability (PWD). A PWD is a person with impairment in interacting with the environment.
Maintain a natural language when interacting with a PWD; avoid stereotypes or stigmatizing depictions of PWDs and phrases and words that demean individuals with disabilities.
This was revealed in a training for top management on disability mainstreaming on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at the UoN towers.
