Kenyan Operator Funds Engineering Education Program
Kenya's Safaricom has lamented the lack of locally trained telecommunication engineers. Safaricom chief executive officer Michael Joseph, says that the network operator has had to hire additional engineers from the UK to keep up with the network expansion demands. Last year, they recruited 59 engineers and 71 others will be recruited this year. Demand is expected to double over the next few years.
Mr Joseph was speaking during the signing of memorandum of understanding between Safaricom and Eldoret's Moi University, for establishment of a telecommunication engineering programme at the university's school of engineering.
Under the terms of the agreement, university students would also get work experience with Safaricom, while the company would lend its own staff to assist in teaching programmes and organise workshops for the university.
Moi University is located in Eldoret, a distance of 310 Kilometers Northwest of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. It was established as the second Public University in Kenya by an Act of Parliament, the Moi University Act of 1984. Moi University was established as an institution of Science and Technology with relatively small component of arts based programmes."
Posted to the site on 23rd October 2006
