Notes to Balozi’s presentation and meeting with students

Notes to Balozi’s presentation and meeting with students

Notes to Balozi’s presentation and meeting with students

moi university main campus fees structure  - •    Current offer of BSc studies (4 years):
o    BSc Forestry (~20 students per year)
o    BSc Agroforestry and Rural Development (~20 students per year)
o    BSc Wood Science and Industrial Processes (~6-10 students per year)

•    From January 2012, 3 new BSc programmes:
o    BSc Nature Resource Management (~30 students per year)
o    BSc Water Resource Management (~30 students per year)
o    BSc Bioenergy and Climate Change (~30 students per year)
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•    (Current offer of MSc studies?
o    MSc Forestry
o    MSc Wood Science

•    (Doctoral programme; under development (?)
o    PhD Forestry

•    Drop-out rate ~10%
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•    Tuition fees ~1300 $/year, with government funds partially covering this

•    Students’ timetable: 7 to 17 (occasionally longer)

•    Number of students per class: from 7-30 in specialized courses, up to 100 in common courses

•    Teaching methods: front teaching, regardless of the number of students
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•    Academic year:
o    1st semester: August to November (exams from the 2nd week of November)
o    2nd semester: January to March/April (exams in ?)
o    [3rd semester: Field Practice in year 3; Attachments (internships) in other years]

•    A typical course: would run for the whole semester, i.e. 3-4 months (16 weeks), with 13 weeks for teaching period and 3 weeks of exams.

•    Evaluation: 30% from cut assessments, 70% from main exam. Some students argue that the cur assessments can imply lot of work and count little; cut assessments can include group work.

•    Student profile: many originating from other parts of Kenya, very few having a laptop, half wishing to continue for MSc studies; employment niches seen at KFS, UN, manufacturing, environmental organizations, banks, lecturers.
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•    Basic science courses taught by foresters (previously not the case, but seen as an improvement)

-Organizational structure Moi University: Campuses:  Main Campus; Town Campus; Eldoret West Campus; Kericho Satellite Campus etc; Constituent Colleges Chepkoilel University College; Kabianga University College; etc

    Chepkoilel University College>
o    School of Science
o    School of Education
o    School of Agriculture and Biotechnology
o    School of Natural Resource Management
    academic departments:
•    Wildlife management
•    Fisheries and aquatic sciences
•    Forestry and wood science
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Notes to comments made during Workshop
•    (Koech): Emerging issues: energy, food security, growing trees outside forests, community involvement

•    ODL is needed also for KFS

•    Are BSc and MSc now at Moi too many and too specialized? Will they get job, if market needs change?

•    Quality of graduates gone down

•    Government policy: free education; ODL important

•    (Koech): 32 trainees from Chepkoilel at KFS

•    Through the Wold Bank funding to KFS, new building for Department of Forestry and Wood Science

•    Group 1 discussions

o    Demand of job market for agroforesters is low; should they study forestry and specialize only in the last year(s)

o    A previous workshop in 2010 focussed on this, and included a curriculum analysis, contemplating 3 parts in the studies: basic sciences, basics of forestry/Agroforestry, and practices. Documents will be made available.

o    First year: climate and weather missing, soil and water and hydrology missing

o    Resources are available from KFS for Moi to review the curriculum [150000€/year] through MMMB

o    KF College (KFC, providing diploma/technical level education) also to review curriculum by end 2012

o    Moi has opportunities to greatly benefit from 3 facilities with Finnish funds:
    UEF project
    MMMB curriculum review
    KFC –Moi curricula harmonization

o    At KEFRI (Kenyan Forestry Research Institute), currently about 50% are agroforesters due to ICRAF influence/work

o    A Forestry Professional Association will be soon constituted

o    Organizations mentioned:
    NEMA: National Environmental Management Authority
    KBS: Kenyan Bureau Standards
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•    Group 3 discussions (How to make forestry visible and attractive); [Added by Sari]

o    Mobiles a good tool to increase the interest and knowledge of children, good to involve also parents

o    Possibility to include environmental / forestry issues to the curricula of primary schools?

o    Connection to media: how, what, by whom?

o    Cooperation with companies, e.g. the mobile solution: providing some elements for the solution as a part of their social responsibility
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o    Need to involve students to “work” with farmers (planting, nursery, silviculture, forest management planning)

o    Creating clubs, members: students, farmers, teachers, children -> discussing / learning / teaching

o    Politicians: participation into planning phase concerning environmental issues (policy forums?)

o    Cooperation with local environmental office NEEDED!: staff visits, training for the office’s staff (willing to pay from it!)

o    Internships of students to administrative offices

o    Curricula revision needed every 5 years: increase multidisciplinary, practical work

o    Curricula discussion:
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    How to put the previous issues to curricula (mobile game, media context, practical work, etc.)
    Revision of some courses needed (like communication skills, some ecological courses, etc.)
    Need to generate new courses on current issues like forest energy
    Forest / professional ethics (community /social responsibility)
    BIG QUESTION: should Chepkoilel College create one program for forestry to generate wider knowledge or many programs (like planned at the moment) with narrow expertise?


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