University of Nairobi, Kenya

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Name:

University of Nairobi

Region:

Africa - Kenya

Description:

The Faculty of External Degree Studies established its distance teaching programme in 1985. The Faculty is part of the College of Adult and Distance Education (CADE), which is one of the six Colleges of the University of Nairobi. It is located at Kikuyu Campus, 25 kilometres from Nairobi. The programme has started with the Department of Education to train teachers in arts and later in science subjects. Legal studies and business studies will follow at a later date.

The Faculty assists with the training of staff and of other organisations involved in distance teaching programmes, eg, AMREF (African Medical Research Foundation), Kenyan Cooperative College and INADES - Formation, which respectively provide courses for health workers, cooperative personnel and farmers.

Staff of the Faculty of External Degree Studies have organised training in several countries in Africa including Zambia, Namibia (Ministry of Non-Formal Education), Zimbabwe (Ministry of Health, University of Zimbabwe), Somalia (IITT), Botswana (Non-Formal Education), Mauritius, and Tanzania (Open University of Tanzania) and Swaziland.

Specifically the objectives of the programme are to provide:
- learning opportunities for those aspiring Kenyans who cannot secure places in the existing internal faculties of universities;
- the much needed high level manpower;
- an alternative and innovative method of learning, which is not limited to a particular time and place;
- an opportunity for people to learn at their own pace;
- an opportunity to maximise the use of limited educational resources, both human and material, by making university education available beyond the lecture halls.

Courses taught in the distance education mode include the Bachelor of Education (Arts), Bachelor of Education (Science) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education.

Arts courses include the following subjects: education, geography, mathematics, economics, business studies, history, religious studies, English literature, Kiswahili. Science courses include: biology, chemistry, physics and home science. The duration of the course is six years.

Address:

The Dean
Faculty of External Studies
College of Education and External Studies
University of Nairobi
PO Box 30197
Nairobi
KENYA

Phone:

(+254 154) 32117/32029

Fax:

(+254 2) 336885

WWW:

http://www.uonbi.ac.ke

Admission:

Entry requirements for the degree programmes are as for the rest of the University of Nairobi. All students with prescribed entry qualifications for admission are eligible. Applicants for the Postgraduate Diploma must hold a degree in at least two teaching subjects and have a minimum of two years teaching experience.

Services:

Media and methods employed include printed correspondence texts, video and audio cassettes. Face-to-face tutoring and tutorial support takes place through weekend seminars at a study centre and residential at schools.

Registration:

The academic year consists of two semesters of 13 or 15 weeks, with the year beginning in June. External students will be expected to take examinations at the same time as internal students. These examinations are usually taken at the end of each academic year. External students need to notify the Dean of the Faculty at least three months in advance if they are ready to take an examination in any of the units they have studied.

Unit cost per student is estimated at being 14% less than it is for internal students.

Languages:

English

Overseas enrolment:

Statistical summary:

There are 46 members of staff, including eight academics and 28 administrators. There were initially 600 students, although in 1991 the number had fallen to 270.

Date:

2 July 1999 bb

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