MKU partners with British universities to improve academic programmes

Mount Kenya University (MKU) has entered into partnerships with several universities in the United Kingdom in its quest to improve its academic programmes.

A team from the university visited the UK last week where it reached several agreements with local universities.

MKU chairman Simon Gicharu said the visit also secured funding for research in the institution.

He said there would also be exchange programmes between MKU lecturers and those from the UK universities.

Some of the universities MKU will be partnering with include Coventry, Bradford, University of Nottingham, Nottingham Friends University and Regent’s University.

The upcoming MKU’s institute for oil and gas also received a major boost when the management of Coventry University agreed to help it to design the curriculum.

“We visited Prof Andrew Briggs, a professor of nanomaterials at Oxford University.

“It was in reciprocation of an earlier visit by Prof Briggs at MKU Thika Main Campus.

“Our MKU team led by Dr Francis Muregi, Director of Research, and Prof Briggs, has finished developing a funding proposal on Kenyan scientific and religion affiliation.

This will harmonise the dichotomy between science and religion,” Dr Gicharu said.

MKU also agreed on a partnership with Bradford University in offering peace and security studies.

The university also secured hundreds of books that will be used by students studying law at the institution’s school of law located in Parklands, Nairobi.

Dr Gicharu and Kenya’s High Commissioner to the UK Lazarus Amayo also met the global chairman of Standard Chartered Bank Sir John Peace and CEO of Nottingham City Ian Curry.