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.
