Student finance

Student transforms childhood passion to enterprise

As thousands of students enter the already saturated job market every year, one Maseno University student is making best use of his artistic talent by juggling studying and running a design and advertising company.

IT students win cash through a matatu information system

Four Strathmore students have designed a matatu information system that has seen them win Sh240,000 in cash prize in the recently held 2010 Masachussets Institute of Technology -Africa Information Technology Initiative (MIT-AITI) mobile programming business.

SIFE launches national business competition

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE Kenya) has launched the 2010 National University Business & Entrepreneurship Competition to climax on July 3 when the grand winner would be announced. The competition, in its 8th consecutive year, will see 14 universities compete for the chance to represent Kenya in the SIFE World Cup in the USA in early October this year.

Financing education: HELB comes to the aid of students

Student loans once meant long queues, painful waits, much uncertainty, but a potentially free ride to non-repayment. Not any more. The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has been reborn as a branch of e-government providing loans to any student winning a place at university or college to cover tuition and living costs.

Regular students to pay more while parallel fees to go down

A team of International and local education experts is recommending radical changes in the financing of university education. Regular students, whose courses are subsidized by the Government will be required to pay the market price of the courses, while parallel students may pay less, if the proposals are adapted.