The County Government of Uasin Gishu’s CEC for Co-operatives and Enterprise Development Ms. Esther Mutai, while paying a courtesy call to CUK’s VC Prof. Kamau Ngamau and DVC CDRI Prof. Isaac K. Nyamongo CUK AND UASIN GISHU COUNTY GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE COOPS The Co-operative University of Kenya And The County Government of Uasin Gishu are set to get into a pact in a bid to promote Co-operatives and Enterprise in the County. The County Government of Uasin Gishu’s CEC for Co-operatives and
The Co-operative University of Kenya has held its 2 day Annual Conference on “Innovations for Sustainable Co-operative Development”. The conference was officially opened by the Principal Secretary Ministry Of Industry, Trade and Co-operatives, State Department of Co-operatives has had various cross-cutting sub-themes discussed. The PS noted that the Co-operatives Kenya have a critical role to play in National Development, “Looking into the highlights of the Big-Four Agenda of the Kenyan Government Strategic Delivery in the next five years, the President of
The Co-operative University of Kenya joined the Kenyan Co-operative Movement in marking this year’s International Day of Co-operatives at the Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The event which brought together the vast movement was preceded by a series of events included the Co-operatives Environmental day, sporting activities, Ushirika blood donation among others. This years’ theme was ‘Inclusion; Co-operatives Ensure No One Is Left Behind’. The event was graced by the Governor Nairobi City County H. E. Dr. Evans Kidero and the Kenya’s Cabinet
The Co-operative University of Kenya (CUK) and The Kenya National Library Services, Kibera organized a reading promotion; campaign for children living in the slum areas at the Kibera Community Library, Nairobi’. Several primary schools from the Kibera slums benefited from the event having had been taught how to use the library services and the motivational talks delivered by keynote speakers among them the CUK’s director of Nairobi campus Ms. Monica Nderitu, CUK Librarian Ms. Jane Gikandi among others. These schools included
The library held a one day workshop for academic staff on 25th May 2017. The workshop attracted 30 participants The workshop was opened by Prof Emily Akuno, the Deputy vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs). In her remarks, Prof Akuno said that the conference was spot on as academicians were going to set the standards of how things should be done. She pointed out that the only universities that were going to survive were those that would be able to
The Co-operative University of Kenya celebrated its annual cultural day on 16th June, 2017 at the university’s main campus in Karen. The CUK’s Ag. Vice Chancellor Prof. Kamau Ngamau, in his speech read by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs Prof. Emily Akuno called upon everyone to live harmoniously in our diverse culture. Officials from the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), the Directorate of National Cohesion and Values addressed the students and staff on an array of issues touching on
The International Music Council has elected Professor Emily Achieng Akuno its President. She was elected to this position during the 37th General Assembly on the 11th and 12th of June 2017. Prof. Emily has served in different Universities at different capacities and also around the World. She has a wide range of experience in the music profession. She has a Doctor of philosophy degree from Kingston University. She also has a master in music from North West State University from
The Ag. Vice Chancellor of The Co-operative University of Kenya Prof. Kamau Ngamau joined the Kenya’s co-operative movement in marking the co-operatives’ environmental day on Saturday 10th June 2017 at Jamhuri park Nairobi. The annual event in the run up to the International day of co-operatives to be marked on 1st July, 2017 worldwide was presided over by Mr. Muchiri Stanley who is the President of ICA Africa and Chairman of Co-operative Bank in Kenya. Addressing the cooperators at the cooperatives’
The Co-operative University of Kenya hosted a 2-day capacity building workshop dubbed CAK-DGRV cooperation capacity building workshop for the entire co-operative movement in Kenya through their representatives in May, 2017. The purpose and objective of the workshop was to understand the concepts gamification and e-learning and how to apply both in testing of knowledge in an exciting way, based on multiple choice questions. Speaking while presiding over the closure of the workshop, the University’s Ag. Vice Chancellor Prof. Kamau Ngamau lauded
“Dear freshmen and women, Allow me to congratulate you for your performance in KCSE last year (2016). You are the few we selected based on your performance among the thousands who had chosen to be here. As you may be aware, this is not just any other University; for your information, we have only two CO-OPERATIVE Universities in Africa, and this is one of them. We are known far and wide for the quality of graduates who come out of here