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Campus Fisi - …where campus wolves hunt for fresh kids

Your first display in campus tells a lot to the people around you.

This is a real phenomenon. It happens and every striking fresher lady should be on the lookout. Oops! The fresher dudes too. You are grabbed too. Grabbing of fresher’s happens; only that the extent of it depends on the kind of university/college that you have been integrated into. Every guy/lady out there knows that a fresher’s mind can be very easy to manipulate and some are mishandled completely during that one ‘bash’ that brings the ongoing and fresher students together. Smart fresher’s tend to be alert from the time they step inside the campus. Those ones prosper well in the first year of campus life.

So what about this campus life?

On the eve of fresher’s month, some guys save their HELB money for ‘impeccable’ deals. They want to shower the fresher like that one queen just to buy the trust, before finalizing all the evil plans in their heads with the damsels. This is something that happens and the fresh damsels who still have smell their mother’s skin should be on the lookout.

Kate joined this vast and globally populous college in town early last year. She was extremely felicitous. This had been her dream- to get to campus so she could finish her degree. As with all the registration on the first day at campus, she got in a line with the other ‘fresher’s.’ They were all speaking with their newly made friends. She was all alone and her ultimate job, for now, was watching and listening the fresh-comrades as they had their hullabaloos. Just then, she noted a peculiar guy throwing serious glances at her. She was not accustomed to such rummy ways of glaring at a girl. T he dark-chocolate guy was dressed in a shiny black suit and with those shoes, that one would fear they would inject the host’s tibia bone – extremely pointed. He had put his hands together as though praying. Kate tried to imagine what the guy was thinking about but could not come up with an idea. She gazed at her brown skin again and felt a bit clammy at her armpits.

As the line proceeded to the front, she walked closely behind. She pretended to be looking at the line’s far end. Her abducens nerve was extremely perfect as she used it to rotate her eyes laterally to get a closer view of the guy. She shuffled again as the line proceeded forward. At one time, she lost the view of the guy. She could not perceive the guy. She started staring at all areas she could possibly think of but the guy was not there. Where could he have gone? She asked herself. She wondered why all this thoughts about this guy had stuck in his mind. She had never got in a limbo ever again thinking of such a dude. Did I view him as a threat? She asked herself again.

She turned around and saw a lady behind her. She smiled at her and the lady smiled back.

‘I’m Kate. It’s nice to meet you?’ she said lively
‘I’m Katherine. It’s nice to meet you too’ she responded and they became friends while still on the line. All this moment, Kate was turning eyes around to see if she could catch an eye of that stalker-dude. He had shook her to bits. She was happy to have got a friend to keep her company. The two ladies exchanged numbers and continued speaking of their different backgrounds. At last, they were at the registration desk, they were registered, and some documents were exchanged. Kate was the first to complete the registration. She sat aside at the visitor’s pew awaiting her friend. Just then, this guy rocked in and smiled in front of her. He greeted her.
‘Hello’
‘Hello’
‘I’m Derry’
‘I’m Kate’ she was looking uneasy and uncomfortable as she awaited her friend.
‘I’m a tour – guide to show you around the school’ Kate gazed at him again, his tag on his breast was written ‘University Tour Guide’

‘Can’t we show ourselves around the school? I almost know every corner ‘she explained herself and after a short time of tedious discussion, she trusted this guy. They waited for Katherine and walked together. They were now so happy together to have a company of a flashy person with intellectual thoughts and who seemed to have a future – that is how most fresher’s see the world. They also come with this slogan ‘Ponyoka na future ’ such that they target the bright guys doing law, medicine,Business, engineering and any related courses . Kate had now bought a lot of trust to this guy called Derry. The school rotation was over and after talking some leisurely walks admiring the architecture of the campus, they came to a certain iconic – monument where they took many selfies together.

That evening, they got in and drunk to their fill.

That evening, Derry took them out for dinner at a certain frequented high-end hotel in town. Sometimes, it pains many dudes to spend a lot of money on women and most of the pleasantries come at a PAY! The talk at the table was excellent. It was so interesting when you just join campus and a guy takes you out for dinner just like that. After the meal, they took some alcoholic drinks together. Kate and Katherine were not accustomed to drinking alcohol and after three glasses, they were all in (diplopia-mode) double visions and hallucinations had set in. the euphoria was there too. Derry was gazing at them as they were alcohol did some great changes in their Central Nervous System (CNS). Kate came around Derry and slept on his chest, as she looked extremely dizzy. Derry hired a taxi and walked with the two damsels inside the car that accelerated to the campus’ hostels. He took them to his friends’ room and did the unexpected to them continuously as the damsels craved for more as the alcohol too absolute control of them.

At around 11 am the next day, Kate got up and woke her friend- Katherine. They all had marks of struggle on their wrist joints and some bruises on the neck. Kate specifically had a large bruise on her back. They gazed at each other.

‘What happened to us?’ Katherine asked Kate

‘What is this place?’ Kate asked her. They were all alone.
That feeling you have when you are sure that someone misused you and dumped you for good
Kate got up and felt that something had transpired tonight inside her body. She was not feeling okay. She at once gazed at Katherine and whispered to her.
‘That guy –Derry manipulated us. He used us. He mishandled us and did what he did to us the entire night’ she dropped a tear.
Katherine got up too and held her mouth with her both hands. She dropped a tear too.
‘We had been informed about such things in campus but… ‘Kate continued
‘We assumed them’ Katherine completed.
She got hold of Katherine’s arm and walked out of the room.
Everyone appears friendly just only to notice some hidden agenda.
awaiting the next prey
Pokey predators on the prowl preying on poor souls that just arrived campus – Ponyoka Na Freshaa is Real.

Regards :Mohammed Tokal Morowa, a student at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of science and technology pursuing a Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) With information technology (IT).

Related resources:
  1. First Years : Summary of the Dos and Donts in Campus.
  2. A piece of Advice to First Years Joining Campus/College
  3. Download your Campus Admissions Letters

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Freshers Dos and Donts in Campus.

Allow me to reminisce a little, after all, it has been about two weeks since I finished campus. I realize I did not have a proper goodbye, but here is what I gathered from four years of undergraduate:

Here are some of the guidelines of surviving in Kenyan campuses: A College Manual

Avoid the last minute rush. The I-work-best-under pressure is a myth. When it comes to studying, if you leave all studying to the night before the exam, you’re likely to fail. Okay, you may not get an E (which means you have to re-do the paper), but a C or D are likely grades.

Be yourself. Be true to your friends, because the friends you make in campus are the ones you will keep for life. If you can’t reveal your true self to your fellow comrades who do not judge, accept who for who you are and will hold a harambee to bail you out if you get into any sort of trouble, then I don’t know who else you can trust.

Cops. Cops and university students are not friends. Always maintain a 50m (or more) radius around a cop. Ask any student who has been in a strike. Or anyone coming back to campus at night and they encounter cops who ask for ID, and that is the one time you didn’t carry it. You could be arrested for loitering, drunk and disorderly etc.

Drinking. If you have no desire to be a drinker, then do not drink. If you decide to drink, there are some rules you should adhere to: do not experiment with drinks if you’re not indoors with your friends, so if you pass out you’re in safe hands. Find your drink of choice and stick with it. Do not ignore your studies. Do not ignore your friends. Do not drink all your rent/food/clothes money. I’ve ever bought supper for someone who didn’t have a cent on him yet he’d been out drinking the previous night. Do not offer to buy chicks/guys drinks just to impress if you can’t afford it. Do not go out if you can’t afford it. Do not become a regular at the local ‘wines n spirits’. Drinking has so many rules, I’ll just have to let you figure out the rest.

Exams. They are the one thing that you’ll be judged by most of the time. Do not copy in exams. Who am I kidding? Some students survive on Mwakenyas (those tiny pieces of paper on which all notes are compressed into.) But seriously, most of undergraduate is more of recall than reasoning. Lecturers do not invent questions, every question they’ll ask has been asked before. Just do your revision well. I remember in first year, no one wanted to copy or to be copied from. By fourth year, the situation had changed a lot. Either way, I insist, do not copy. If you get caught, it could end up badly. Like you being forced to take some years out, and then graduating without honours.

Friends. They are the best thing that could ever happen to anyone on campus. If you find true ones, keep them. The ones you can buy drinks from when you’re loaded, and still borrow from when you’re broke. If you can’t borrow money from your friends, then they are not true friends.

God. Acknowledge His existence in your life. Don’t be too over-religious though and end up missing on the life.

Hustle. I’m not saying go into the streets and start walking around looking all desperate. If you want to, start a business. Write on the side. Do your poetry. Sing your heart out. Draw portraits. Make cards for sale. Register your own company and start making websites/projects. It’s a way of establishing yourself and making that extra cash. It will lift your self-esteem. If an opportunity comes along, take it.

Independence. Be your own person. Whatever you do, ask yourself why. And the answer should not be ‘because my friends are doing it.’

Joke. Take time to smile at your blunders/failures. Life can be brutally short.

Knowledge. For what’s it’s worth, be good in at least one area of your field of study. Theoretically and practically, so even if your grades are not so good, you have something to show for your time in campus.

Luxuries. I know a student once who had all electronics possible but he didn’t even have bed sheets. All am saying is, know your priorities.

Money. Spend wisely, do not lend to those who can’t pay back, do not borrow unless it’s absolutely necessary and you know you can pay back. Friendships have begun and ended because of money.

Neighbours. Be good to them, you’ll live next to them for a while and they are the ones who’ll raise an alarm if your crib is on fire/being robbed.

Over. When campus is over, it’s over. Do not linger around. As much as I miss campus already, I would not go back just to hand around. I know some people I used to see around campus who had already graduated, and they walked around doing nothing. They were not doing further studying or teaching or anything.

Play. Go out and get involved in campus games and sports. Go out in the evening and have fun. Dance the night away. At the beginning of the semester when you have all the free time, watch movies, series, play computer games. Go out all week if you can. There is always time to study in the middle of the semester and towards the end.

Be unique. Be unique in at least one thing, style, fashion, neatness, etc

Avoid Tobacco. Smoking of tobacco is harmful to your health. Okay, sometimes smokers look cool, but once you get hooked, it’s hard to quit. It’s easier to quit drinking than to quit smoking, so if you haven’t started smoking yet, do not start. If you’re already smoking, and you wanna quit, devise some sort of plan that will see you reduce your smoking by the time you’re done with campus. That will be the icing on the cake of your graduation.

Utter selflessness. That’s the only way to feel alive. Share with the less fortunate. Donate your time (and money) to charity. Join Rotaract Club, Red Cross, Environmental club or any other society where you can give back to society.

Vegetation. And the environment in general. Thou shall care for your environment, do not litter unnecessarily and if you’re passionate enough, join the environmental club and plant some trees.

You. You’re your own master. You’re in charge of your ambition, desires, goals, limitations. Of course, with guidance from your creator.

Zeal. The Bible says in Ecc 9:10, “Whatsover your hands find to do, do it with all your might. For there is no knowledge, no wisdom, no action, no thought, in the world of the dead where you are headed.”

That is just a summary of the Dos and Donts in Campus.

Reference: Savvy Kenya

Related resources
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  2.  ‘ PONYOKA NA FRESHAA ’ - [ GRAB A FRESHER ]
  3. Ponyooka Na Fresher - where campus wolves hunt for fresh kids


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Student Identity and Other Requirements for Sitting Examinations
First years students at Kibabii University

So, you have finally qualified for campus after working so hard in high school; the admission represents to you a much-needed break from parental control at home. Many of you leave home emotionally famished and eager to explore relationships.

When I ask most of you to describe the relationship with your father you always tell me 'It's just there.' For ladies, you've never been loved by a man and you can't wait to try it out.

Now listen carefully:

1. Shed your naive perspective quickly.

You're now out in the world and here, unlike your family and your church back at home, nobody cares about you. Everybody is primarily looking after their own interests. Do NOT trust anyone quickly, assuming they're honest just like you.

Convert yourself from CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE to INTENSE REALISM: in the former you're honest and true to everyone, hoping people will reciprocate and be sincere back to you. This will go on until you're ruthlessly exploited by one of the predators in the human jungle. In the latter, you detach your feelings and wishes from coloring your interactions, and instead, you focus intensely on people's actions to read them for what they are.

You also analyze yourself with objectivity and get a grasp of your weaknesses, for example: 'I'm love-sick, so I'm vulnerable.' 'I was controlled too much at home so I'm likely to go too far in asserting my freedom.' 'I'm the first to get out in my family so I cannot afford stupid mistakes like indulging in drugs.'

2. You blink, you get pregnant. Be very alert.

The level of ignorance among campus 'freshers' about reproductive health is alarming and to me as a professional, outright annoying. Listen my little sisters: it takes just one careless act of having unprotected sex and you're pregnant. The baby daddy will take off because he was just having fun, not trying to become a father. And by the way, he DIDN'T love you he just wanted to have you. And an unplanned child in campus will take you through a living hell. Imagine when you're a dependant yourself and then you get another dependant?

The solution is two-fold: abstain or get reliable family planning. E-pills are NOT reliable. They fail more than half the times. One lady had 2 kids by 3rd year, and when I asked her about family planning she was just ignorant 'I thought I was too young to use them.' But you didn't think you were too young to have sex or have a boyfriend? An unplanned baby will take your life in a completely different direction.

3. Most of you think what you need to get from the university is a degree and a partner: WRONG.

What you need is financial autonomy and practical skills. If you're not investing your time to become financially independent and to master some skills YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME on campus, I don't care the degree you're pursuing. Do not spend the weekends held up at your lover's house or playing wife to some dude who is as lost as you are. Do not party all weekend: do not read-only for exams: leave these to fools.

Instead, covert all your lectures to something practical, and invest all your spare time in building networks outside the campus. Convert your passion into a business, however small.

4. If you have a choice, DO NOT STUDY FROM HOME, coming to school and returning home every evening. Better to stay in hostels and learn to live on your own. If your family won't allow this as soon as you finish campus or during long holidays take internship very far away from home. You need practical life skills and if your family is too controlling you'll never mature unless you claim your freedom in some way.

5. Date with a light touch.

You can actually find a good partner in campus, as long as you observe these rules about campus dating:

a) You're evolving very rapidly and in 5 years you could be a totally different person from who you are now.

This is the dynamic that breaks most relationships that started in campus. You started together but you grew in different directions or at different speeds. Keep this dynamic in mind and DO NOT start living together or even start the marriage process until you've confirmed that your FUTURES are compatible.

b) A child should come after marriage, not the other way. If someone begins to ask for a child before they marry you, be very afraid.

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME ALL THE BEST.

By Isaac Wesonga

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Visit students.kuccps.net/login

Have you applied for the KUCCPS admission, but you aren't sure of the university or college you have been selected to join or the course you have been offered?

The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has completed the process of placing candidates who had applied for different courses after the first, second and third revision was done. The successful Candidates are expected to be admitted to universities, TVET institutions and Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) for the 2022/2023 Intake.

2022/23 Placement cycle key highlights

  1. 90% of the 2021 KCSE candidates who attained a mean grade of C + and above and applied were competitively placed, with 85% of them getting Degree programmes and 5% taking up courses in TVET Institutions.
  2. Of the 144,466 Kenyan citizen candidates who qualified for degree programmes, 123,963 (85.8%) were placed to universities (67,237 male and 56,726 female). 
  3. 16,310 candidates who qualified for degree programmes in the 2021 KCSE examination did not submit applications and may have opted to pursue other opportunities.
  4. 124,258 applicants have been placed in TVET institutions (55,553 male and 68,705 female).
  5. For the first time, KUCCPS placed applicants for admission to the 32 public diploma primary teacher training colleges. A total of 1,538 (1,216 female, 322 male) have been placed in Diploma in Primary Teacher Education and Diploma in Early Childhood Teacher Education.
  6. KUCCPS placed 293 (129 male, 164 female) to three colleges offering Diploma in Secondary Teacher Education, namely: Kagumo, Kibabii and Lugari TTCs. These students will be trained to deliver the CBC curriculum.
PLEASE NOTE : Successful applicants will receive the results via SMS and student's portal.

We have provided a detailed guide to help you to check your course and where you’ve been placed in simple steps.

Let’s get started.

How to check KUCCPS Course application results?

All students who have been placed will be informed of the course and institution they have been placed through direct SMS and the official Kuccps students portal.

To get your results via the students portal, simply log in to your student’s portal and the information regarding your KUCCPS admission will be availed to you.

Sample KUCCPS Results

What do I need to login to the system?

To access your KUCCPS admission info, you’ll need the following info to login to the system.
  • KCSE Index Number (11 digits)
  • Examination Year
  • Birth Certificate Number or KCPE Index Number

Note that the initial password is the applicant’s Birth Certificate Number or KCPE Index Number (as used in KCSE Exam Registration).

How do I log in to my student’s portal? 

Once you have all the required login details set, open your favorite browser ( Chrome, Opera or Firefox ) and visit the official placement portal of the KUCCPS via students.kuccps.net/login

The first thing you need to do on this step is to key in your KCSE index number, KCSE Year and your password on the box provided. You will be required to use your birth certificate number or KCPE index number as you have used them in your KCSE registration as your password.

If successfully logged in, information regarding the course you have been placed and the institution will be availed to you.

After you are done, make sure to log out from the system. It’s always advisable to keep your information safe. What next? You need to get your admission letter.

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How do I get my KUCCPS admission letter?

All successful applicants should hear back from the institutions they have been placed within a few days/weeks after the release of the placement results. Please note that KUCCPS does not send letters of offer. Instead, admission letters are sent by the respective academic institution where the candidate has been placed.

A letter of offer signifies that a student has been accepted by the University to pursue a certain program. The letter contains info such as the name of the course, admission number, campus where you are required to report, reporting dates, fees structure, and other relevant guiding info.

READ ALSO: Guide on how to download your admission letter

How do I transfer from one university to another?

Applicants who will wish to transfer to other institutions will be given a one-month window to explore alternative options. Applications for inter-university transfer are usually done through the KUCCPS student's application portal. ( www.students.kuccps.ac.ke )  The Inter-University / College transfer will be considered only if the applicant meets the cut off for the course they want to move to and there is still capacity in that course.

As of 25.06.2022, the KUCCPS had not announced the inter-university transfer dates. Keep it here for timely updates.

READ ALSO: How to apply for KUCCPS Inter-University Transfer

When do I apply for HELB loan?

HELB places advertisements in the print media in which it invites applications for loans. The Board maintains a deadline and those applications received after the deadline without justifiable reasons are not processed. Needy students are advised to apply for a loan from the Higher Education Loans Board. Interested applicants may download HELB LOAN APPLICATION FORMS from HELB Website (www.helb.co.ke).

Please note, you're required to have a letter of offer from the university where you have been placed to apply for HELB Loan.

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Please read carefully and follow all instructions on the application form.

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How to make money via Jumia J-force Program


 Looking for a job in Kenya is becoming tough, thus individuals are continually looking for new ways to supplement their income and making money online is one of those way. Here is a guide on how to make money as a Jumia Sales Consultant. 

What is Jumia Kenya? 

Jumia, Kenya's no. 1 online retailer was established in May 2013 with the aim and vision to become the one-stop shop for retail in Kenya with implementation of best practices both online and offline. The company offers the widest assortment at an unbeatable price.

What is Jumia Jforce program? 

Jumia JForce, is a program that is run by Jumia Kenya and allows individuals to earn commission by assisting customers place orders on Jumia online website or mobile application. Anybody can sign up for the program online and they can go ahead and sell any of the products listed on Jumia. 

 As a signed J-Force agent, you are expected to convince people to shop on the website and help them place the order to earn a commission. You earn a commission depending on the number of sales you do per month. Also, you can also make money by recruiting new sales consultants. 

How Does It Work? How do i make money?

With this program, you basically earn money ordering and selling stuff from Jumia to customers. Not only earning through customer sales, but you also earn commission even if you are the one ordering the goods for yourself. 

 The good thing is that you don’t even need capital to start. All you have to do is to register, as explained below. 

What is in it for Me as a Jumia Consultant?

Aside from being your own boss and making mouth-watering commissions on the number of goods you order on behalf of customers, you also get trained by Jumia Kenya. As an independent contractor, Jumia trains you in order for you to make sales, establish and manage your sales team. 

 Secondly, you also get to attend Jumia conferences, training, workshops, seminars, luncheons, awards and much more just by becoming an agent of the Jumia brand. Isn’t that incredible? See below steps on how to join JFORCE.

How Do I Get My Commission?

During the registration process, you get to input your account details from whence your commission for sales will be paid into. You keep tabs of your commission through the official JUMIA Jforce app and commission come in the first 7 days of the next month for orders placed and completed in the last month. Commissions less than 100K per month are paid directly via MPESA. 

Convinced? How do i register for J-Force program? 

The process is as simple as A,B and C.  If you wish to register for this awesome program and become your own boss, then check out registration guide below. Now, what are you waiting for?
  1. Step 1 : Fill the pre-registration form. The info will help me as a signed consultant to add you to my whatsapp support group and be part of my Jumia Jforce team. You’ll be required to submit the following details: Your full name, active M-PESA phone number, province and active email address.

    NOTE: You must have access to the internet and email account since all communications are sent via email.

    Pre-registration form link:    Join Jumia Jforce Chuoni KenyaTeam
  2. Step 2 : Check your email. You’ll find a WhatsApp group joining link where you can network with fellow agents or seek support.
  3. Step 3. Create a Jumia account. You'll use the account to search items, find daily deals and place orders on the website or mobile app.

    Jumia Account Registration Link: https://www.jumia.co.ke/customer/account/create/
  4. Step 4. Create a jforce account to confirm your registration. You'll use the Jforce account to track your sales, orders, payments and manage your team. Copy details in Step 1 above.
    J-Force registration Link: https://jforce.jumia.co.ke
  5. Step 5. Get customers and place the orders on Jumia. 
  6. Step 6 : Smile all the way to the neareat Mpesa agent.

After Registration, What Next? 

Once you create a jumia and Jforce account, the next steps are:

  1. Find your clients to order goods for or buy your own goods. Create a whatsapp group and add friends and family members.
  2. Go to the Jumia website and place an order for the good(s).
  3. Receive and proceed to deliver the product to the client 
  4. Earn a commission for each of the products delivered.

Do I have to personally deliver items to my customers? 

Not necessarily, Your customer has several options, they can either: 

  1. Choose for the item to be delivered by Jumia at the address of their choice (home, office, etc.)

    OR
  2. Come and pick their order order at a Pick up Station

    OR
  3. Ask you to deliver to the item to them (you then select one the two options above for yourself and then bring it to your customer)

What is used to calculate commission? 

Commission depends on the product category (e.g. groceries, appliances) and your level (e.g. Probation vs Captain). Commission varies from 2.5% on Mobile to 10% on Groceries. The average commission earned by Jumia agents is 6%. 

What is the mode of commission payout? 

Commission below Ksh 100,000 is paid through Mpesa and above Ksh100,000 through any Kenyan bank account. Make sure the phone number you indicate while Signing In is a registered Mpesa number. Nice deal?

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Egerton University Main Gate
Five Kenyan universities made it among 2021 world’s leading 2,500 institutions of higher learning.
A total of 111 African universities (from 21 countries) made the list, compared to the 955 Asian universities (30 countries), 817 European institutions (37 countries), 440 from North America (seven countries), 129 from South America (10 countries) and 47 from Oceania (three countries).
This figure is a slight improvement as four Kenyan universities were on the list compiled by the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) in their previous edition covering the 2017-2018 period.
Joining the list of Kenyan universities in the latest ranking is Egerton University at position 1,794 globally and at 64th in Africa.

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Egerton University is at second position in Kenya, behind the University of Nairobi (UoN) which is the highest ranked Kenyan university at position 1,317 globally and number 39 in Africa.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) retains its ranking as the third best varsity in Kenya, ranking 2,248th in the world and 94th in Africa.
MOI UNIVERSITY DROPS
Moi University drops from being ranked second in Kenya and falls to fourth, ahead of Kenyatta University which drops down one place to fifth.
Moi University is at number 2,269 in the world and 95th in Africa while KU places 2,354 globally and 104th on the continent.
All Kenyan Universities dropped in their ranking as per last year, with UoN dropping 53 places globally, JKUAT falling 35 spots, Moi a massive 263 positions and KU falling 72 places.
In terms of category rating, UoN has a B+ score, with Egerton and JKUAT managing a B. Moi and KU are rated B-.
The rankings see Havard University (USA) top the list, with the University of Toronto (Canada) and Oxford University (UK) following respectively.

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This top three order is unchanged from the previous ranking. All these universities, as well as the 105 that follow them, are rated A++.
American universities make up 10 of the top 15 institutions, with the first non-North American, non-European institution being China’s Tsinghua University at number 18.
The first African university on the ranking is the University of Cape Town (South Africa) which ranks at position 241 on the planet.
The URAP ranking is an academic performance ranking, and is compiled after six indicators that scope the quantity and quality of publications of a university are assessed.
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Deadly Campus Loverbirds

My heart has sunk! I have seen some of my friends post scary, gory photos of a young man at Egerton, who stabbed his girl friend before stabbing himself and it has disturbed me the whole day! They are both dead, their dreams, those of their parents and the society are Over.
When I was in campus, I always wanted to have a bliss of a relationship. I would see fellows walking side by side with their enchanting damsels, cleaving at the hips, arms rolled around those hips, a bucket carrying sufurias and veges and eggs in another hand, heading to the kitchenettes to cook. They would share the cooking, the young men would massacre the ugali as their lovely better halves do the stews.Some would permanently label seats in class for their loved ones and woe unto thee if you happened to throw your behinds on those reserved chairs! Some would vacate their rooms and get 'married' to their boyfriends in their stuffed rooms, perhaps a room of four men and the noise emanating from the beds in the miserable hours of the night would really torture the subdued boy child in some of us! In church, some of us would totally look out of place especially when all our friends were enjoying the beauty of being in a relationship while we wondered what demon had bewitched some of us!


Then we would get into relationships, not with full comprehension of what it meant to love, but because we wanted to fit into the community of comrades! I tell you young man and woman, if I would go back to my First year, I would correct every silly mistake that I ever made in campus on matters of the heart!

Now listen, you are in campus or in an institution of Higher Learning! You probably don't pay rent, you have to part with sometimes as little as ksh 2500 For a whole semester in school which you still demand that it be lowered and you have free access to wet taps of water, free electricity, free bed, free mattress, free Wi-Fi, free cooking coils,name them! The cafeteria and the Mess sells you chapati and ugali and beef stew at an insulting price, 10 Bob at most! You have an overflowing pocket Courtesy of HELB which you throw stones if it delays to hit your accounts.You make fake demands to your parents for ghost trips to down town Coast!You lie alot to get money from your Hoi polloi parents. You use this cash to make life for your girlfriend better.... You buy her stuff, you attend all the birthday parties in school, you become a hopping night diplomat in all the bashes in school where you befriend the red liquid in an enticing bottle. Then you think you are madly in love!
Then one day, you find your girlfriend flirting(they always do) with another miserable boy child and you have a quarrel and then because you have not trained your eye balls to know what TRUE LOVE IS, you dash to the rack, pull out the knife and slice through the innocent throat of somebody's only daughter! Then, for fear and for guilt, you stab yourself to death!
Do you know what it means to love? Do you know that less than 95% of campus romance dies a natural death once people step out of the gates of campus? When the tarmacking starts, when the hunt for a job comes in and you need to to pay rent, pay for water, pay for electricity, repay HELB, strive to put two meals on the table for a day, that is when life awakens you up! And then responsibility sets in:You suddenly realise that your small sister needs fee to join Form 1 and because you have gone to campus, every body is turning towards your miserable payslip!

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KRA is competing for its share and your village is sending numerous invitations for fundraisers. Your mother is bedridden and she needs immediate bail out lest the hospital bill nosedives to unquenched limits. Your dad falls sick and the only saviour is that payslip of yours which is already Ladden with loans. Your church has weddings and you need to contribute but still you have that GIRL CHILD in the name of your sweetheart who needs your attention! Young man, that is when you know what real and TRUE LOVE means... And because the purse is no longer flowing, your lovely campus beauty queen serves you with a hot, dry smashing boot!
Why die because of someone that you would probably never marry? Why kill and offend God because of someone you would never spend a lifetime with? Who told you that campus beauty shall be your wife? Who? You don't have an iota of what awaits you out here, I wish you knew! Life is tough out here man, it is tough! People only become real out here.... It is out here that the real patience of many is stretched beyond limits and those plastic girlfriends and boyfriends of yours just naturally drop off your life with stupid excuses! The ones who told you they shall never betray you even though the heavens fall suddenly find new plastic attention and leave you for greener pastures which are never green after all!
So, relax, study, love God and tell that other person the words of Solomon in Song of Songs 2:8 ..."Stir not my love till he pleases".I know I have served this message with pepper, but forgive me, facts are always Stubborn, very stubborn But always true!If I found out that someone was taking me for granted and had reached a point of betraying me for the sake of another, it is very simple:that person is unstable, unreliable and unfaithful! And you must know that a double minded person is unstable in all his ways, says James 1:8!For such, simply kneel down, tell God to reveal more dangerous red flags and run for your life before that unstable human being does that when you have made the solemn irreversible decision of Holy matrimony! Your rib is somewhere,seek it on your knees fervently and passionately. Don't kill young man, don't!

By Gilbert Juma

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My Crush Broke my heart

Back in my college days, I fell very neatly into the category of girls who efficiently filled a guy’s need for a friend or a little sister, but never for a girlfriend. I was obsessed with sports, by that time working the night shift and writing sports for a daily newspaper, fiercely independent, and a country mile from what one might define as hotness. In short, it seemed that I was a real hoot to hang with, but possibly not high on the scale of alluring young females to date. It’s OK; a decade later I’ve gotten over it, I promise. Seriously.
I say all of that so that you will have the background for the story I am about to tell. It involves the weirdest thing anyone has ever said to me and the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. At the same time.
It was late at night in a  Kempinski parking lot. At least in my college years,  Kempinski parking lots were kind of the place where things went down. It was hot in that thick summer night way, the type of heat that you kind of swim through, the type that catches at smells and magnifies them. In this case, coffee hung in the air, sweet and nutty. Voices and laughter came in waves as the  Kempinski’ door opened and closed. I stood outside my car after a long evening of chatting with friends and waited.
See, it was the last time I was meeting with a group of twenty-somethings that was organized through a local church. We met weekly at  Kempinski but took summers off, which meant that I would be unlikely to cross paths with any of the other members until September. They were friends, but only in the sense that our friendships were rooted in our weekly meetings. The catch was, as these things tend to go, there was “this guy.” This particular one was cute, had an accent, and was just the right amount of goofy to make me think I might have a shot with him. We got along great, and I had begun to get the vibe that he might be into me. Here’s where I let you know that my “vibes” at the time were pretty undependable.
Right. So I was standing at my car. He was parked one spot over, and we stood there semi-awkwardly as I tried to give him enough time to ask me out. If it was ever going to happen, he and I both knew it had to be now. We trickled through the last possible stream of small talk, unlocked our cars, started to climb into our driver’s seats, and just when the proverbial and literal door was closing, he turned to me.
“Hey-”
“Yes?”
“Kiss a lot of boys this summer!”
And he was gone. Door shut, engine started, parking lot vacated. What. Just. Happened.
I drove home in a moderate fury. What did he mean by that? Kiss a lot of boys this summer? How did he think that was even remotely the right thing to say? Even if he wasn’t going to ask me out, at least he could not say that! What was his problem? What was mine for liking him in the first place?
I stewed on his parting words for a good long time. But as the summer heat rose, I slowly cooled down. Everyone knows that falling in love involves two people, somehow miraculously sharing the same feelings about each other. Clearly, we did not. There was nothing I could do about that.
But what still irked me was the fact that I had spent several years crushing on this guy. We would float in and out of each other’s lives, and every time we reconnected, I would think, maybe. Yet there was never a maybe on his end, not even close. I promised myself that the next time I met a guy and started investing my feelings in him, I wouldn’t waste years hoping he would make a move.
June burned off and my other friends returned from college. I had graduated a semester earlier in the winter, but now the whole crew had caught up. One of my best friends from high school came home and invited me to go to a BBQ with her. That’s where I met Myk. My initial attraction to him was purely physical. He was c-u-t-e. Then, our circle of friends suddenly began to intersect constantly. The more I ran into this Myk guy, the more I liked him. Maybe he would ask me out. Maybe. Wait. No. No, no, no, no.
There is a moment in life when you have to decide if you’re going to jump off the cliff. For some people, that means taking a risk at work, or quitting college, or moving cross country. My cliff was Myk, and when I jumped, I made myself extremely emotionally vulnerable.
Myk was pretty shy and liked to do things the right way. That meant taking his time before he asked a girl out. That didn’t really fit my vision of our relationship, though, so I asked for his phone number one night. He obliged, and while we began to text and got along great, he still didn’t ask me out. A month passed. Then one night, we were hanging out with friends and went through the usual dance of talking and flirting until we said goodbye. Still not even a hint of a date invitation. So, I jumped off the cliff. I drove to a  Kempinski (a different one than back in June … like I said, a lot went down at  Kempinski in those days), ordered a coffee, and composed a text.
“So, I’m just curious … are you thinking we’re friend material or more than friend?”
I waited. And waited. An hour ticked by. Only then did I realize I had no signal in the  Kempinski and the message had not even sent. Smooth operator. I moved outside, the text sent, and a reply followed a few minutes later. He didn’t feel this was something we should text about. Could we meet sometime that week to talk?
I’ll spare you the long beautiful love story that follows. In short, we met in a park and took a long walk. He said he thought we should develop a stronger friendship before we dated. I said I was chock full of friends and wasn’t particularly interested in climbing into the beloved friend-zone with him. He didn’t commit to anything that day, but the next day, he asked me out. He proposed less than a year later. Six years into our marriage, I remind him often that I single-handedly dragged him into the best marriage either of us could have ever dreamed up. You’re welcome, Myk.
And that brings us back around to the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. Back in the Kempinski parking lot, as a guy with a cute accent told me to “kiss a lot of boys this summer,” it felt like lowest point of my life. Not because he meant to hurt me, but because he didn’t want me. What I didn’t realize was that in that moment, I would develop the resolve I needed to refuse anything less than a deep relationship with my next crush.
I learned an important lesson that night. That sometimes, if you’re not willing to take a risk, you don’t get the reward. So, thanks,  Kempinski guy. And by the way, I did kiss one boy that summer. Still kissing him today.


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Unemployment in Kenya
There is this job requirement especially in public sector appointments that one must meet the threshold of Chapter 6 of our constitution. Then they state that one must have clearance from HELB, EACC, CRBs, certificate of good conduct, KRA tax compliance etc etc Now, I think Kenyans in our characteristic fashion are out doing ourselves with stupidity. These requirements are being demanded even for very lowly jobs like accounts assistant, HR assistants, secretary, junior IT etc most of which are entry level. 

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 In my opinion, the youth are being denied employment opportunities using this chapter six nonsense. How would a fresh graduate get a clearance say from HELB when he has not even gotten a job to pay his first installment. How is that youth who keeps getting short term odd jobs just to survive and life is so difficult that he is unable to pay his mshwari loan or any other loan, supposed to get clearance from the credit reference bureau? He is listed in the first place because of lack of money and that is why he is looking for a job. So to be indebted is a crime now? 

 How does a tax compliance certificate help when it is required of someone who has never even earned and has therefore never paid any tax? How do these useless certificates of “Good” conduct help in a country where the rate of crimes recorded to police is less than 1% and the police do not even have a central database. How many people are walking our streets who have fleeced companies of millions, got discovered, got the sack and a disclaimer photo in the papers, but because their employers never followed the matter legally, their criminal past will never appear anywhere when CID is looking for their criminal records in order to give them the Certificate of Good Conduct.

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More importantly, has this chapter six stopped the big guys from fleecing Kenyans billions from public coffers? Did chapter six stop CS Wario, Ann Waiguru, Ngilu, Rotich, Ruto etc ? Did chapter six stop Joho from importing uncustomed and undeclared contraband sugar? I say this chapter six nonsense is being misused greatly. Some of these organizations asking for chapter six requirements do not even qualify for chapter six themselves. Some county governments and parastatals are indebted heavily to the tune of billions to a point where some utility companies have sometimes cut off services like water and electricity because of nonpayment yet you find them requiring the chapter six credentials in their advertised jobs. Do they themselves qualify for the credit bureau certification with all those overdue debts? I don’t think so. Nonsense!!! 

 RESIST. REVOLT.

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University grading system in Kenya varies from one school to the other. In KU, there are standard requirements that must be met before completion of a course. The requirements are as essential as they aid in the grading. Keep in mind that medical and mechanical engineering students have their own requirements as well as the grading system. The outlined below is the grading system for medicine, engineering, and other undergraduate and postgraduate courses. 

 Bachelor's degree requirements and grading system At the end of the semester students usually do examinations in the centers they registered in. Before doing an examination, it’s important to do CATS and any other online activities since they boost your marks. CATS, group work, take away assignments and practical work together contribute 30% to the final exam while the university examination contributes the bigger share of 70%. The pass mark for all the units is 40%. Keep in mind the pass mark doesn’t apply to medical and engineering students. Just familiarize yourself with the course you are taking to know some detailed requirements which apply to your course. 

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 Below is the Kenyatta university degree grading system. 

 Units are always marked out of 100 and translated to grades as follows:

  70% and above – A 
 60 to 69 – B 
 50 to 59 – C 
 40 to 49 – D 
 0 to 39 – E 

 Incomplete grades 

 Letter (I) is used to represent an incomplete grade at the end of a semester. The grade will be assigned to you if you have an acceptable senate reason as to why you can’t sit for your examination. However, if you fail to take the examination in the next period it will be offered, a zero score is given to you. Zero falls under the E grade category and implies a failure. 

 Retake 

 You can only be allowed to sit for a retake if you have not failed in more than half of the units in a given trimester. The failed units normally are graded just like a normal examination. Academic warning Academic Warning (AW) will be given if you fail more than half of the units in a given trimester. 

 Discontinuation on academic grounds 

 Failing in all units in a given trimester automatically leads to discontinuation. Consequently, getting two academic warnings consecutively will also usher in discontinuation. 
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