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The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kenya, in collaboration with the University of Nairobi and East African Cartoonists' Society have organized for a virtual African cartoon festival on COVID-19 pandemic, as a way of enabling the populace share practical and home-built concepts on how to keep safe during this period and post period.

This festival is solely for African and Iranian cartoonists. The secretariat will receive the artworks of the cartoonist from all over Africa. 

The UoN Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama was one of the panelists on NTV Live edition of the Nation Leadership Forum on 21st May, 2020, titled 'The Impact of Covid-19 on Education'. He expressed his hope of tertiary institutions fully adopting virtual teaching and learning. 

Other panelists were Dr. Sara Ruto, Chairperson, Covid-19 National Education Response Committee, Dr. Nicholas Letting, CEO KASNEB and Prof. Charles Ong’ondo, an Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at Moi University.

All administrative members of staff are invited to participate in a survey "Evaluation of Implementation of Online Learning - Administrative Staff".

The goal of this survey is to evaluate the implementation of online teaching, learning and supervision that has been taking place at the University during the COVID-19 period. 

The findings of this survey will be used to improve the various approaches that the university has put in place for the implementation of online learning.

The survey details and link have been sent to your emails.

The University of Nairobi Senate approved guidelines and procedures for online examinations on May 08, 2020. The Special Senate Meeting was chaired by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama. The Senate relied on the provisions of Statutes- XXV that gives Senate the mandate over all academic matters in the University.

The University had adopted e-learning in March 2020 following the government’s ban on meetings and congregations to check the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

The University of Nairobi's is conducting an assessment on Kenyans understanding and level of interaction with vaccines. Further, we are trying to understand the level of knowledge of the Corona Virus in Kenya as part of the research process. Kindly fill out this survey to help us improve our understanding of these issues. https://forms.gle/Xigbj9xFjsz4go127

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama addressed staff and students on the status of teaching and learning in the University. The VC gave an online  address today  8th May 2020 at 3.30 pm. Staff and students followed the address using the University of Nairobi Facebook page link : facebook.com/uonbi.ac.ke

To listen to the address again click here

The University of Nairobi is the most preferred source of new staff by Kenyan employers, a new study says. The study by CPS International, a marketing and social research firm, surveyed 67 universities and 50 organisations between November and January. “For every 10 jobs available, eight are likely to be taken up by public university graduates, especially those from the University of Nairobi, while the other two will likely go to private institutions like Mt Kenya,” the report says.