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Kenya: Varsities Top List of ICT Savvy Institutions |
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Friday, November 02, 2012 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Kenya |
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Nov 05, 2012 |
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Nairobi — Kenyan universities dominated a survey on ICT compliance in East Africa that was conducted by CPS International, a social and market research company.
Five Kenyan universities made it to the top 10 in the region and still dominated the list of the top 100 institutions.
"We wanted to establish how universities have complied with ICT in terms of embracing technology for both students and lecturers," CPS regional director Dann Mwangi said when releasing the survey in Nairobi.
Makerere University of Uganda topped the list with 13.49 points out of 15 points followed by Strathmore (12.84), Busitema University of Uganda (12.28), School of Finance and Banking of Rwanda (11.93), African Virtual University of Kenya (11.90), Makerere University (11.89), University of Nairobi (11.84), Mount Kenya University (11.79) followed by Kenyatta University (11.77).
Others are National University of Rwanda, Bondo University College, Hubert Kariuki Memorial University (TZ), Moi University, Daystar University, University of Dar es Salaam, Mbarara University of Science & Technology, Egerton University, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Mountains of the Moon University (UG) at number 20.
CPS said it ranked Makerere top because it has enhanced ICT both in teaching and learning.
"We were not only looking at how many computers a university has, but how they are used by lecturers and students," he said. "Some universities have computers but they are not even connected to the internet or the internet is too slow and cannot therefore help students at all."
The survey was conducted between April and October 2012 with the aim of assessing the extent to which higher education institutions in the region have embraced the use of ICT in teaching and enhancing quality of education.
"The results of this survey have been used to rank the top 100 institutions of higher education in East Africa that have institutionalised the use of ICT as a strategy of keeping in tandem with best practices of management, development and sustenance of university education worldwide," the organisation said.
It involved 250 fully-fledged universities, constituent colleges and college campuses in Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.
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