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Mushroom farming is now becoming popular and a job creator for many young people.
Mushrooms are rich in antioxidants, lean proteins and essential vitamins.
The challenge is the sensitive production process given that they do not grow in soil.
One established farmer in Nderi in Kikuyu, Evelyne Ndung’u takes Money Maker through the delicate process. She first prepares her mushroom, plants them, harvests and packs them for sale.
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Ndung’u says the most appropriate and cost-effective structure for mushroom production is a grass-thatched mud house.
How to improve the quality of Africa’s doctoral education
A specific case in point is Professor Goolam Mohamedbhai’s article published in June last year in
University World News. He highlights how inadequate funding, poor supervision, lack of supervisor qualifications, an unsuitable research environment and ineffective external quality assurance affect the quality of doctoral education in African universities.
Doctoral education for what?
A crucial first step towards quality doctoral education in African universities is specifying clearly its core purposes. The core purposes may not be the same for every African country, but African countries share many similarities. This is important in that some African intellectuals have different perspectives on the issue.
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How WiGIS Kenya has built talent & promoted Women in GIS in Kenya
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The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) space in Kenya is a relatively new field, encompassing the field of geospatial information including Geospatial Information Systems.
Caroline Akoth and May Kitiyo, the co-founders of Women in GIS (WiGIS) Kenya, were interviewed on the Wamathai Podcast on their work in building a community of women in GIS. WiGIS Kenya is a non-profit that aims at creating a community of visionary women in Geospatial Technlogy to bridge the gender divide in use of technology.
Professionals in the GIS space have knowledge and skills in the techniques for spatial data acquisition, processing, manipulation, analysis, modeling and dissemination. This results in data and information that can be visualized in various forms and used to support decisions for problems that are location related.
Further, he denied that between 2011 and 2012, he forged a Jkuat academic excellence certificate.
The court was told that Koimburi presented the alleged forged papers to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for clearance to run for the seat.
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The DCI was invited to probe the matter after Knec and Jkuat separately wrote informing them the presented documents were not genuine.
“A candidate by the name of Ndungu George Koimburi did not register nor sit the year 1994 KCSE examination at the Ekalakala Secondary School under index 62001/013,” said part of a letter signed by Knec acting CEO Mercy Karogo filed in court.