By Edwin Echwa
The Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examination Board (KASNEB) has accredited the Turkana University to offer its courses after a rigorous assessment by the KASNEB Board.
KASNEB is a state corporation under the Ministry of Finance and Planning with the mandate to accredit institutions offering accounts, secretarial, and business studies courses in order to prepare the students for the job markets.
Addressing the media at the Turkana University precincts, the KASNEB chief executive Nicholas Ng’etich said that while being a multi-national body operating in 45 countries, they are now devolving their services to the people in different institutions by first sensitizing the institutions and finally giving them accreditation, allowing the institutions to become examination centres for KASNEB courses.
Turkana University stands a great chance of becoming an examination centre that can now serve the three neighbouring countries of Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia.
While appreciating the accreditation, the institution’s principal George Cheming’wa said the community around the institution will have a chance of training at the university, bearing in mind that any student who sat KCSE with even an E in exams can train as an accountant by upgrading from certificate levels moving up.
The introduction of the KASNEB curriculum at the university will now rekindle hope for students who failed to secure university slots by rising from bottom to a meaningful education and training.
Early this year, the university also signed an MoU with the Kenya Public Policy Research Authority to train Turkana University students and lecturers on how to write a policy paper and also understand about the government policy agenda.
