Dr. Meshack Chuma Opwora has been confirmed as a keynote speaker during Research Week 2020. He will speak during the virtual 2nd Annual International Conference on Open, Distance and e-Learning. The theme of the conference is Optimising Open, Distance and e-Learning Approaches for Effective Teaching and Learning.
Dr Jane Rariey has been confirmed as a keynote speaker during Research Week 2020. She will speak during the virtual 2nd Annual International Conference on Open, Distance and e-Learning. The theme of the conference is Optimising Open, Distance and e-Learning Approaches for Effective Teaching and Learning.
COVID -19, a trending issue of global concern, has turned people’s lives upside down occasioning a huge amount of change in the world today. COVID -19 has fundamentally altered certain aspects of everyday life across the globe. In other words, COVID -19 has in one way or another occasioned changes in the way we do things, it has occasioned culture change.
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHS) and face-masks to the forefront in the fight against the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). A closer look at the labels of ABHS products on the market, however, reveals that directions for use are either absent, ambiguous or incomplete. Only a few are satisfactory, raising the question as to whether they are being used properly. A recent study by the authors revealed that 32 % of samples did not have any user instructions at all (Nyamweya and Abuga, 2020).
In a bid to address the emerging trend of adaptable, cost-effective and custom-built solutions, the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (UoN) intends to apply innovative techniques in engineering education to extend its current curriculum.
COVID-19 is an international current, emerging and rapidly evolving issue. Current affairs basically revolve around happenings in different fields such as the economy, sports, science and technology, medicine, environment, etc. and they operate at both national and international levels.
In the recently released The Public Health (COVID-19 Sale of Alcoholic Drinks) Rules, 2020 developed under the Public Health Act (Cap. 242), The Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe, issued a number of guidelines that would have far reaching impact on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Every year on 28th July, we mark World Hepatitis Day. The running call for this year’s celebration is to encourage every person from across the globe to act and raise awareness to “find the missing millions”.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the social policy weaknesses of the devolved units of government as well as the absence of a coherent core across the different social development programmes of the National Government. For instance, the different social protection instruments implemented by the National Government but consumed at counties did not demonstrate a coordinated flow to be rapidly marshaled and deployed to address the pandemic-related crises.
