Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new reality is that learning will no longer be tenable through face-to-face and onsite interactions as has been the case.We are at a turning point when technology is the driver and education, just like other sectors, it has   to change and adopt new methodologies and approaches.

The latest Webometrics(July 2020 Webometrics) ranking of world universities has named University of Nairobi as the best University in East Africa and position 10 in Africa.

University of Nairobi is also among top 1000 best Universities in the world  after it was ranked position 956.

Chief Justice  Maraga  who is the president of supreme court of Kenya  revealed that the judiciary is in the process of building a data center. He indicated that he  would be glad to partner with the University of Nairobi's ICT expertise in implementing the project.He said this during a courtesy call to the University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Prof Stephene Kiama .

KENET has re-introduced authentication on their portal for those using the KENET-Sponsored Telkom Sim Cards. 
The login credentials as as follows 
Username :  Mobile Number without the leading zero e.g. 776037743@kenet.ac.ke 
Password:  Use the last six (6) digits of the serial number on the SIM card
For those who might have Eduroam accounts can use them for the above service.

Find attached the User guide for the service.

The University of Nairobi chief medical officer through the office of the deputy vice chancellor human resource and administration (HRA) is urging all staff of the university to observe the covid-19 infection, prevention and control (IPC) measures in the offices. Click here and see the communication 

 Employees have become a weak-link amidst Covid-19. The  crisis has seen an upsurge use of technology in unprecedented ways. Many companies and even government institutions have adopted a work-from-home routine, some having to also adopt a ‘bring your own device policy.

This move has increased organisational risk and cyber-security etiquette has begun shifting to the end users. As a result, the most prevalent attack vectors going around include phishing and social engineering.

UniRank  has ranked the University of Nairobi in position 7 as the most popular university in Africa. All the top six universities came from south Africa.  

The university of Nairobi vice- chancellor prof Kiama presided over the online launch of re-engineered  Human resource management  information system (HRMIS) that took place on Friday July 2020.

The vice Chancellor highlighted the challenges the newly re-engineered will address.

The university of Nairobi will now start offering dual and joint degrees . This is after the University's senate approval. 

A dual degree is designed and delivered by two or more partner institutions. A student receives a qualification from each of the partner institutions. The student is required to meet the requirements of the institutions to be awarded a degree by each of the institutions.

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Telkom kenya and google subsidiary loon have launched their internet balloon service, providing internet to rural areas of Kenya. This has come in handy when internet coverage is a major concern in not only in Kenya but world over.