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TU-K Profile - The Historical Background | The Technical University of Kenya Home Faculties Library Research I-Repository Staff Mail Alumni Student's Portal Staff e-portal Intake 2018 Contacts MenuWell-nighTU-KTU-K Profile GovernanceThe Chancellor The University Council The Senate ManagementThe Vice-Chancellor The University Management Board AdministrationAdministration, Planning and Infrastructure Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Academic, Research and Students ProfessorsFull Professors Associate Professors AcademicsFacultiesApplied Sciences and Technology Engineering Sciences and Technology Social Sciences and Technology Examinations Undergraduate ProgrammesBachelorsStratumCourses Diploma Courses Description of Bachelor of Technology Programmes Postgraduate Programmes Library AdmissionAdmission Lists Advertised Courses Prospective Students Scholarships and Grants Students SupportDirector of Students Sports and Recreation Message to Students New Students News from the Directorate Chaplaincy Clubs and Associations Religious Groups Staff Student Downloads Student Welfare Students Leadership SATUK Constitution You are hereHome »Well-nighTU-K » TU-K Profile - The Historical Background TU-K Profile - The Historical Background The Foundations Kenya Polytechnic UniversityHigherTechnical University of Kenya The Foundations Kenya Polytechnic on Whitehouse Road in 1961 (Courtesy of www.gordonmumford.com) The Technical University of Kenya shares history with the minutiae of the first three higher education institutions in East Africa. In the 1920s there were heightened agitations for the expansion of wangle to higher education by ethnic leaders in the East African Territories. Concerted efforts in the form of committees, commissions and conferences resulted in positive developments that included the elevation of Makerere Institute of to Makerere UniversityHigherof the University of London in 1949, proposal to establish the Royal TechnicalHigherof East Africa (RTCEA) in Nairobi was tried and construction started on 25th January 1952 and establishment of Dar es Salaam UniversityHigherin 1961. RTC in Nairobi admitted the first cohort of students pursuing Architecture, Arts, Domestic Science, and Engineering and Science in 1956. Simultaneously, flipside group of students were registered to the Kenya Technical Institute but admitted (in 1956) within the tuition of RTCEA in Nairobi. Kenya Polytechnic Cadet Engineers, matriculation of 1963 (Courtesy of Amu Gather, TU-K Alumni) The Government of Kenya immediately initiated the minutiae of the Kenya Technical Institute at its present site within Nairobi CBD in three phases. The first phase, 1957-1958, comprised planning and working drawing. Activities of the second phase included construction of wardship block, tuition woodcut and supply of equipment in the period 1958-1959. The third phase, 1959-1960, covered the construction of laboratory wing, workshops, roads and site work and supply of equipment. The Kenya Technical Institute started operating on its new site from 1st January 1961 with the relocation of students from tution blocks of RTCEA but was only officially opened on 29th May 1961. It was later renamed the Kenya Polytechnic. Kenya Polytechnic Kenya PolytechnicWardshipBlock Subsequently, The Kenya Polytechnic was registered by the Ministry of Education as a post-secondary educational institution on 18th January 1967 and prescribed registration number 12715. It was initially authorized to siphon a maximum of 2, 075 students. Over the years, the Polytechnic experienced unconfined expansion in student enrollment, diversity of wonk programmes and in unstipulated telescopic of operations. From its founding, The Kenya Polytechnic quickly established itself as a part-way of excellence in the training of middle level manpower for Kenya and other East African countries. This function, the Polytechnic has carried with unconfined worshipping as testified by the recognition and respect that her graduates have unfurled to enjoy in the employment market. The Kenya Polytechnic has been established with the principal objective to train largely in the technical fields, especially, architecture, surveying and planning. The training in these fields would substantially be supported by programmes in the sciences, expressly Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. From this, the telescopic of the subjects offered at the Polytechnic was expanded to include other vocational subjects such as merchantry Studies and Management, Hospitality and Hotel Management, Health Sciences and Technology, andDiamondand Printing.Moreoverin the 1970's, Computer Science and Information Technology was introduced as a major zone of study at the institution. Over the years, it was recognized that plane those trained in the technical fields needed to be exposed to social skills that would enable them to interface the technological knowledge with the practical needs of the society. Consequently courses in areas such as communications and unstipulated liberal studies were introduced. The Kenya Polytechnic UnivesityHigherKenya Polytechnic University College, University Ground In 2005, the Government of Kenya launched the Sessional Paper No. 1 A Policy Framework for Education, Training, and Research. The Sessional Paper provided for upgrading of national polytechnics to offer stratum programmes in their areas of expertise. The upgrading was under the special provison that the polytechnics would however protract to offer their traditional tertiary programmes. Thus, the polytechnics were to protract offering education and training at the Diploma level and to protract with the training of middle level manpower. The Sessional Paper, in particular, provided for educational and training path for candidates who have ripened through the Technical, and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme. Within this framework, the polytechnics would be expected to provide leadership in the TVET and acts as the noon of technical and vocational education and training. The process of upgrading the Polytechnic was initiated by the Ministry of Education immediately without the launch of the Sessional Paper in 2005. The Ministry worked a committee to oversee this process.Withoutmuch consideration, it was decided that the weightier way forward in establishment of the institution as a stratum awarding institution was through the establishment of the institution as a university college. It was remoter decided that as a university college, the institution will be a plug-in higher of the University of Nairobi. On 23rd August 2007, the President of the Republic of Kenya signed the Kenya Polytechnic UniversityHigherLegal Order thereby formally establishing the Kenya Polytechnic UniversityHigheras a plug-in higher of the University of Nairobi. Although the higher was established with effect from August 2007, it did not uncork to function as a university higher until November 2008 when the Principal for the UniversityHigherhad been appointed. In July 2009, the university higher had the first batch of the programmes of study tried by Senate at the University of Nairobi. The curricula are in the areas of electrical and electronic engineering and subsume the Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology, and the Diploma in Technology (Dip. Tech.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The programmes are designed to imbricate to imbricate respectively five, four, and three years of study for the B.Eng., B.Tech., and Dip. Tech. The first cohort of stratum students joined the higher in January 2009 and a section of whom has since satisfied the Board of Examiners and has been recommended for conferment of their respective degrees in the convocation of 2011. The first cohort of stratum students joined the higher in January 2009 to study for programmes tried by the University of Nairobi Senate in the pursuit areas: The curricula were in the zone of electrical and electronic engineering and comprised the Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology and the Diploma in Technology (Dip. Tech.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology. The programmes were designed to imbricate respectively five, four and three years of study for B.Eng., B.Tech., and Dip. Tech. Technical University of Kenya (TU-K) Technical University of Kenya, Proposed SWoodcutThe Technical University of Kenya (TU-K) was established through the elevation of The Kenya Polytechnic UniversityHigher(KPUC) to full university status. TU-K was established as the first Technical University in Kenya line with the provisions of the proposed Universities Act, 2012. The technical university is a new type of university in Kenya, whose mandate shall be to offer higher education and research in technology. The technical university, as a concept, is stuff created in Kenya with the objective to be a technological gravity overdue the Vision-2030 momentum and the unstipulated economic minutiae of the nation. This has come well-nigh from the realisation that most countries that have been worldly-wise to make major technological breakthroughs were heavily propelled through this by their technological universities. As an institution of higher learning, TU-K shall offers undergraduate degrees at the Bachelor’s level. In this respect it will be noted that in the education of technical personnel at the university level, institutions of higher learning in Kenya have unceasingly over the years only focussed on the training of professionals at the level of engineers, architects, surveyors, planners, and manor managers. The education and training of the technologist has however been totally neglected in this structure. Given that the technologist is usually the ‘driving engine’ in the very industrial production, it should be no surprise that Kenya has been unable to make serious transilience in industrialisation. To this extent in wing to producing graduates at the fully professional stratum level, TU-K continues in the tradition that has been set by KPUC in offering as well degrees aimed at producing technologists. TU-K continues to produce technologists with the objective to underpass the gap between, say, the engineer and the technician. Traditionally the engineer (or equivalently architect, surveyor, planner, or manor manager) is trained to be concerned with the conceptualisation, innovation, and diamond of new artefacts and systems. The technologist on the other hand is normally concerned with the very production of artefacts and the implementation of systems.TU-K offers the stratum of Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) for those aiming to be technologists. Parallel with this however, TU-K moreover offers the full professional degrees in various fields. For instance, it is intended to offer degrees such as Bachelor Engineering (B.Eng.), Bachelor ofTracery(B.Arch.), and Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.). 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