JKUAT edges past rivals in latest rankings.

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has edged past three of its local rivals to claim third position in the latest global ranking of universities. JKUAT rose at the expense of Strathmore, Egerton and Moi universities which lost ground to rank 67, 80 and 143, respectively, in Africa according to the latest study by Spanish research firm Webometric...

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Mike Sonko to beat Wanjiru- Poll.

Mr Mike Mbuvi Sonko would win the race for Nairobi Senate by a landslide according to an opinion poll conducted by the Synovate Ipsos. The polls show Sonko would get a whooping 65 percent, while Wanjiru would get 25 percent. Former Human rights activist Okiya Omtata will only get a handful of votes.  In the same opinion poll by Ipsos Synovate, Evans Kidero will defeat Waititu, with a slim margin of just 3 percent, which shows that theirs is in effect a statistical tie and could go either way. The same polls also show that Hassan Ali Joho...

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Karua, PK, Raila and Uhuru emerge Presidential debate winners.

Narc Kenya boss Martha Karua, assistant minister Peter Kenneth, deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Raila Odinga were the best performers in the Monday presidential debate, according to a new po...

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Are Your Job Ads Driving Away Talent?

I read job ads in my spare time. People send me especially ridiculous ones just to make me laugh.  The recruiting process is broken, and if we need evidence we only have to look at any job listing. Here's how a typical recruiting ad begins: "Bidii Farm has an immediate need for..." Really — Bidii Farm has a need? If we want to hire sharp people in our organizations, we need to market to them. We can't assume they'll happily crawl over whatever piles of broken glass we put in front of them...

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