LAIKIPIA UNIVERSITY POST GRADUATE COURSES

Laikipia University Post-Graduate Courses

  1. Master of Business Administration (MBA

2.Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

3 3. Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics

44. Master of Arts in Kiswahili and Communication

  5. Master of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Budget for financial year 2014/2015 on Higher education

It’s one  week since the Cabinet secretary for National Treasury Henry Rotich read the budget for the financial year 2014/15.The total budget projected for FY 2014/2015 is Sh1.8 trillion compared with the previous year Sh1.3 trillion.

Every sector had its fair share of allocation of the funds’ from devolution, health to Agriculture. Everyone had anticipations on various sectors of interest. But for us Education sector was the key interest.

Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury Henry

 Rotich

 Education  sector received a heavy boost in the allocation of funds in the financial year 2014/2015 as compared to the ending financial year 2013/2014.

The government allocated Sh55 billion for University education, sh.6.4billion for Higher Education loans board (HELB) and Sh7 billion for technical training institutes.

The Sh.55 billion allocated for university education will be shared amongst 22 universities and 6 university colleges. 

 Treasury allocated Sh6.4 billion to Higher Education loans board up from Sh5.7 billion allocated to  the ending financial year 2013/2014.Loan agency, HELB which is currently sponsoring 164,000 students in institutions of higher learning is expected to sponsor 70,000 freshers who are set to join university in September.

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Throwback thursday

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Ever seen such words ‘Throwback Thursday’, ‘Throwback’ ‘#TBT’ on Social media every Thursdays and wonder what they are? Well it’s not Game of thrones or a movie title but a terminology coined and  used for remembering and sharing past events through social media networks.

Throwback Thursday or simply Throwback is a popular  social media theme used weekly by participants to post anything (photos, videos, quotes or memes) that happened in the past to social networking sites like Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.

As the name suggests throwback Thursday happens on Thursdays and content posted (Usually photos) can be from years ago or just a few days ago; no limitations per se’.

Users who participate in the trend at Instagram and Twitter use hash-tag #TBT, #ThrowbackThursday or #Throwback to tag their photos so as to help expose their tbt’s to many other users using the same hash-tag.There are no rules for the holiday.Its only a thursday thing.

The term ‘Throwback’ originated from Instagram but is quickly spreading to other social network sites especially ones that use Hash-tag functionality like Facebook and Twitter.

#TBT LU Charter award by Former President Mwai Kibaki on February 19th 2013 at LU main campus

Throwback Thursday is important in expressing our feeling of nostalgia. That’s why it’s growing bigger every Thursday.

Next time you see ‘#TBT’, ‘#Throwback’ or ‘ThrowBackThursday’ on your Facebook or twitter timeline then someone is nostalgic!

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