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Mutongi, Kenda – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
This article argues that the "airlift" language often used to describe the eight hundred Kenyan students who attended US and Canadian universities between 1959 and 1963 is misleading. It assumes that the students were being plucked out of substandard education, yet these youth had received some of the most rigorous education in the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Educational History, Advantaged, Colonialism
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Ogachi, Fabio Maroma; Karega, Muchiri; Oteyo, John Samson – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This study sought to establish the relationship between depression and pathological internet use (PIU) among university students in Kenya. The study used correlational design to establish the relationship between the variables. The target population was university students in Kenya. Convenience sampling was used to sample students from one public…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Gender Differences, Internet, Depression (Psychology)
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Odhiambo, George – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
Higher education is a key factor in a nation's effort to develop a highly skilled workforce for competing in the global economy. In this paper, current trends in accessibility, equity, participation and financing of higher education in Kenya are examined. The paper explores the challenges which need to be confronted and discusses the way forward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Oketch, Moses O. – London Review of Education, 2009
This article examines how recent changes, leading to a diversified supply in Kenya's university education system, is reflected in prospective students' aspirations, perceptions and preferences to undertake university education. The results, based on a combination of a convenience and snowball sampling of settings, within which random samples of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, State Universities, Private Colleges