Kenya
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- Third International Professional Meeting of Leaders of the Actuarial Profession and Actuarial Educators in English-speaking Africa 7 - 9 June 2007 - Click here for further details
- 3E Foundation to visit University of Nairobi and Jomo Kenyatta University in June 2007 - contact us for further details
Background
The foundation is working with leaders in the local Actuarial fraternity
and two of the leading Universities - University of Nairobi, Nairobi-Kenya
and Jomo Kenyatta University, Nairobi Campus. The former has been offering
a full Actuarial Science degree program since 2000 and the latter
commenced its full program in May 2002.
The University of Nairobi is sharing its teaching resources
with the Jomo Kenyatta University.
Like Ghana, the lecturers at the actuarial department
of the University of Nairobi have been put in contact
with their counterparts at the University of Lagos in Nigeria and University
of Ghana. The Foundation
plans to link the lecturers from all the centres with
fellow academicians at the thriving and matured actuarial
departments
of the Universities
in South Africa. The first of them being the University
of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.
The student association at Nairobi University, NASA,
are very pro-active with their organisation of annual
conventions. The foundation
is committed in facilitating the students from the
University of Lagos to attend such a convention in Nairobi
in the near future. In the first
instance it is yet to formally link both student associations
at the University of Lagos, Nigeria and NASA members.
The
foundation is committed to encouraging and facilitating
the creation of a formal actuarial society in the immediate
to short term. At the moment a formal actuarial society
does not exist.
Following our recent visit to the
University of Nairobi we were delighted to receive the
following communication from one of the students we met:
To
Mr. Olawale,
Greetings from Kenya. I'm a third year Actuarial
Science student at the University of Nairobi.
I was personally honoured by your recent visit to U.O.N. and more
so since I was the beneficiary of the
financial reward given to me which I shared with
a classmate. It was the perfect demonstration
and I can assure you,
a lesson that
will not be
long forgotten. I'm an avid reader and so naturally
the money has all gone to books.
I offer you my sincere gratitude not only for
the cash but for the lesson in discipline. May the
3E Foundation prosper and may you achieve all
your goals.
Yours faithfully
Kimberly
Picture: Olawale from 3E with students of the University of Nairobi
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