MKU Appreciates The Role Of Teachers In Global Development.
Mount Kenya University has commended teachers for their role
in molding the society and promoting sustainable development globally.
Mount Kenya University Board of Trustee Chairman Prof. Simon Nyutu Gicharu said
teachers should be highly appreciated and rewarded for their contribution to
global prosperity.
He was sending message of goodwill to teachers who were
celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the World Teachers’ Day,
“We take this great exceptional opportunity to appreciate
and celebrate the teachers of Kenya,” said Prof. Gicharu.
Prof. Gicharu said the global education agenda (Education
2030) is part of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that make up
the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. A specific education goal, SDG4,
pledges to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote
lifelong learning opportunities for all. At the heart of achieving the targets
of the Education Vision 2030, is the teacher. As section 14 reckons, an
integral part of the right to education is ensuring that education is of
sufficient quality. This requires relevant teaching and learning methods and
content that meet the needs of all learners, taught by well-qualified, trained,
adequately remunerated and motivated teachers, using appropriate pedagogical
approaches.
He noted that UNESCO projects that to achieve SGD4, 8.3
million primary and secondary school teachers are needed globally by 2030. As
at the last world teachers’ day (October, 2015), the Teachers Service
Commission, the body that employs teachers in Kenya, projected that slightly
over 70,000 more teachers are needed. We are making contribution toward
achieving the SDG4 having trained over 14000 highly qualified teachers since 2012.
Mount Kenya University resonates with the words of the
renowned philosopher, Mahtma Gadhi who stated,
“I have always felt that the
true textbook for a pupil is his teacher.”
MKU lives to these words by providing market driven, high
quality, flexible, affordable courses to the practicing teachers as well as the
potential teachers in Kenya, which are geared to valuing and improving their
status.
Prof. Gicharu said in line with its vision of ... ‘To be a
Global Centre of Excellence in Education, Research and Innovation in Science
and Technology’, Mount Kenya University has established the school of education
to drive the noble cause of training of teachers. The school has five
departments which offer Bachelor of Education (Science), Bachelor of Education
(Arts), Bachelor of Special Needs education and Bachelor of Early Childhood
Studies. In addition, MKU offers Masters and PhDs degrees in education. The
courses are taken in either regular, blended (Holiday Based-Virtual-Work
based), Virtual Varsity and weekend based modes. The intakes are January,
April, May, August, September and December.
“We value you Kenyan teachers and we are committed to
improving your status by offering market driven, high quality, flexible and
affordable teacher training courses,” said the MKU Founder and National
Chairman of REA.
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