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Investigation of factors influencing commercial Banks leading rates in Kenya. ( A case study of commercial Banks in Nyeri Town)
No full textKnowledge trends that will recreate a smart world: a case study of Mount Kenya University
No full textIn a world of fast knowledge development, none of us will have the capability to know much of anything at all. The most important skill we will have will be the ability to go out to get the right knowledge for the right purpose at the right time. We want to have a world of just in time knowledge. This leads to massive career specialization fostering greater fragmentation of skills, and thus greater competition in the marketplace for niche-oriented skills. Since we are reaching a world in which everything around us is getting plugged into everything else and manufacturing is fundamentally changing. Mount Kenya University has applied fundamental structures to the new generation that prefers to get work done in odd hours, using technology: they care less about structures. They define their lives not by what they do for a living, but what they like to do.
This study intends to establish the current trends Mount Kenya University has applied in checking on Exponential growth of knowledge. The study aims at giving findings on the challenges to be encountered in giving the services on its esteem users and knowledge networks. The study will target three Mount Kenya university campuses namely Mombasa, Malindi and Virtual campuses. The target sample will be three hundred users out of a population of three thousand users. The technique to be used will be simple random sampling where respondents will be selected to fill questionnaires that will be placed to collect the data
An investigation on the influence of school staffing on Learners’ academic performance in secondary schools in Keiyo South Sub-county, Elgeyo Marakwet County, Kenya
No full textThe main purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of school staffing on learners’
academic performance in secondary schools in Keiyo South Sub-County.The study sought to
achieve the following objectives: to find out the influence of teacher/student ratio on academic
performance, to determine the influence of teachers work load on learners academic
performance, to establish the influence of teachers’ training on learners academic performance
and to determine the influence of teachers subject specialization on learners academic
performance. The study used production function theory by Hanushek (2007) and Administrative
theory by Galabawa (1990). The study adopted cross-sectional research design by use of
concurrent mixed methodology. The target population for the study was 31 principals and 347
teachers. Stratified simple random sampling and purposive sampling method was used to select
the respondents’ teachers and principals respectively. This implies that 31 head teachers and 182
teachers participated in this study. The validity of research instruments was ascertained by indepth
discussion with the expert judgement before proceeding to the field. Reliability of the
instruments was also ascertained through test-retest method at an interval of two weeks to
respondents who did not participate in the actual study. Credibility of Research Instruments was
attained by triangulation method where information was collected from principals and teachers.
Dependability of instruments was attained when the researcher reported in detail to enable an
external researcher to repeat and achieve similar results. Piloting of research was carried out in
Keiyo North Sub-county where the researcher selected 10 principals and 20 teachers. Data was
collected using questionnaires and interview schedules. The quantitative and qualitative data
collected was collected and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics; Descriptive
statistics involved the use of frequencies and percentages while inferential statistics involved the
use of Pearson Correlation Analysis and the qualitative data was analyzed thematically and
presented in narrative form. The study concluded that a majority of teachers believed that smaller
classes in secondary schools could enhance students’ academic performance. It further emerged
that there was a statistically negative significant relationship between teacher/student ratio and
students’ academic performance in secondary schools. In addition, majority of the teachers
believed that reducing teachers’ workload could enhance students’ academic performance.
Similarly, there was a statistically significant and negative relationship between teachers’
workload and students’ academic performance in secondary schools. The study findings further
showed that a majority of teachers believed that effectiveness of teachers in handling students
positively enhances students’ academic achievement. The study further showed that there was a
significant and positive relationship between teachers’ training and students’ academic
performance in secondary schools. Similarly, majority of the teachers believed that employment
of more trained BOM teachers with required subject specialization could ease teachers’ workload
and improve on students’ academic performance. The study recommended that there is need for
TSC to increase the number of teachers in secondary schools to reduce teachers’ workload since
high teachers’ workload translates to ineffective teaching leading to poor students’ academic
performance. In addition, there is need for teachers to be provided with in-service training in
subject areas to boost learners academic performance
MKU digital varsity is a collaborative partnership with Sakai platform of USA
No full textMKU Digital Varsity started as an abstract in
July 2010, motivated by the Mount Kenya
University’s desire to expand access to
higher education and to provide an alternative way of obtaining quality academic
qualifications to those who could not attend the campus-based mode of learning.
The university has invested in reliable ICT
infrastructure, integrated students manage-
ment and digital learning management systems to actualise digital learning.
Like the proverbial long journey that
starts with only one step, MKU Digital
Varsity started as a small distance learning centre housed at the Main Campus in
Thika, offering Bachelor of Business Man-
agement and Bachelor of Psychology.
With just a population of around 50
students, the centre morphed into MKU’s
Virtual Campus in July 2011, and later to
Virtual Varsity in 2012. Now it is Digital
Varsity
The role of technology based Banking on Financial performance of commercial Banks in Nairobi City,Kenya
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