SPEECH DELIVERED BY PROF. NDIRANGU KIONI, VICE CHANCELLOR OF DeKUT COUNCIL, DURING THE 6TH GRADUATION CEREMONY AT DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ON FRIDAY, 28TH APRIL, 2017 AT THE UNIVERSITY GRADUATION GROUNDS

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.