Abstract:
I would like to welcome all of you to this 6th graduation ceremony.I would like to
extend special welcome to our chief guest and Honorius Causa candidate, His
Excellency President Thabo Mbeki and at this very juncture thank him for accepting
our invitation to be our honoris causa candidate and finding the time to come to this
University.
I also make special recognition of the Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Education,
Dr.Fred Matiang’i and the Principal Secretary, State Department of University
Education. We thank both for their roles as representatives of the Government which is
the sponsor this University. Furthermore, we here at the University applaud the
Cabinet Secretary for the major reforms he has instituted and successfully carried
through within a very short time, first at the primary and the secondary school levels
and now at the Universities. Here at DeKUT we join other Kenyans of goodwill in
supporting the reforms and are determined to progressively operate at standards
higher above the prescribedCommission for University Education minimum academic
standards. We have an effective Student Information Management System which
enables us to track the progression of all the students from admission to the end of their
programme and always give them timely feedback on their performance.