UoN to Offer Students Jobs
University of Nairobi (UoN) graduates may not be stranded while seeking jobs if the institution’s ambition to link its students with employment materializes.
Wednesday, August 31, during the Dean’s Induction in Naivasha, Vice Chancellor Prof. Stephen Kiama indicated that UoN was in the process of altering its academic approach to become a human-centered institution.
He went on to explain that the well-being of the students will be at the center of its operations and that it is crucial to integrate them into the employment market.
The varsity will accomplish this by employing post-graduate students as adjunct professors and attaching the remainder of its students to attachments and internships.
“The university must integrate students into all our activities. They must be mentored and equipped with entrepreneurship and innovation skills. Today we must give beyond what is offered in the classroom.
"Students should be integrated in the job market through attachments and internships. The University will hire post graduate students as part time in future. Part-timers should be people who have compassion for students,” explained Kiama.
He added that UoN administration was still implementing reforms, with human resources improvements at the top of the list.
The VC indicated that governance improvements and reforms in the data, finance, and curriculum sectors had been completed.
“UoN needs to offer leadership to the Kenyan people, to give hope and faith to the Kenyan people with a strong sense of patriotism.
"It is a moral calling that the University will not tire to offer University of Nairobi values are aligned to the National values and principals,” he added.
Every year, the University of Nevada produces around 13,000 graduates who enter a market with an increasing unemployment rate.
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In the second quarter of 2020, there were 1,841,918 unemployed Kenyans, up from 961,666 in the first quarter.
Twenty to twenty-four-year-olds and twenty-five to thirty-nine-year-olds both registered over twenty percent of the unemployed population.
UoN to Offer Students Jobs
