by Benard Makaa | May 15, 2017 | Education, Graduation Speeches
MP3 Audio https://www.eeducationgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Amazon-founder-and-CEO-Jeff-Bezos-delivers-graduation-speech-at-Princeton-University.mp3 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate...
by Benard Makaa | May 7, 2017 | Education
We ask ourselves what a laptop would do to a child. Why the government would spent billions of Kenyan shillings in buying laptops for standard one kids? How can we objectively answer these concerns? Are there experiments which can help us?Many people have ridiculed...
by Benard Makaa | Apr 25, 2017 | Career
I got my first Job (my current job at the time of this post) through a speculative application. I searched for electrical consulting firms in Kenya, got their email addresses and then customized my speculative application to each of them. Within a week, I got a call...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 29, 2017 | Career, Jobs
BEFORE THE INTERVIEW1. Research the Company and the PositionThe more you know about the organization and the job for which you are applying, the more prepared you will appear (and feel) during the interview. The recruiter will be impressed by your interest and...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 26, 2017 | Education, KCPE
This post is a response to a request I received from one primary school teacher to advise on how his pupils can prepare for examinations, and especially the KCPE(2017). I will give my response based on my experience and what I have learned so far. Mind you, at the...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 14, 2017 | Education
Be alert: Lambert Academic Publishing spam This is the third time that I have received the invitation to publish my research paper with LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (see the end for the email message). I first got an email from them on 18/03/2016(see the end for...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 8, 2017 | Education
16th Nairobi International Education FairI have been attending “The Nairobi International Education Fair (NIEF)” for the last three years (from the year 2014, when I was in my 5th year of studies). I have reaped huge benefits from the fair and I will still attend the...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 2, 2017 | Education
The current education system in Kenya has for a while been blamed for producing half-baked graduates. The scapegoat has been the 8.4.4 system and now there are cries to eliminate this system and establish yet a new order, the 2-6-6-3.It should be remembered that the...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 26, 2016 | Blog
The current education system in many countries encourages memorization of facts and striving for grades for grades sake. The important themes of life have been neglected and students /young people have been left to grapple with the aftermath. The authorities that be...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 5, 2016 | Education, Scholarships
University scholarships are handy as they relieve students of the burden of financing costly higher education. While the government of Kenya is trying to make education free, and it even sponsors “qualified” students, this is never enough. Higher Education Loans Board...
by Benard Makaa | Jun 22, 2016 | Education
Technology has brought tools which have made learning possible under any imaginable environment. We now have eBooks which are accessible using any reading device, and thus you can read on the go. There also audiobooks which you can listen to while carrying out other...
by Benard Makaa | Jun 6, 2016 | Education, Scholarships
I went through high school under the scholarship of Jomo Kenyatta Foundation. If it were not for them, I really have no idea how I would have managed to finance my way through high school education.Many primary school pupils are not able to afford transition from...
by Benard Makaa | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog
It can be frustrating to be bombarded by so many websites which claim to provide KCSE past papers. We have assembled a list of genuine websites both of which offer payable and free past papers. 1. WWW.KCPE-KCSE.COM This website has three levels of membership. Silver...
by Benard Makaa | May 30, 2016 | Education, News
She has been called the Robin Hood of science because of her efforts to liberalize access to scientific research papers. And she is surely a boon to the ever poor graduate student, or any researcher for that matter. Alexandra Elbakyan, a neuroscientist created...
