24 students in various disciplines are set to travel to France to teach English in different learning institutions. This is part of French and Kenyan Governments exchange programme where Language Assistants from both countries have opportunities to teach English in France and French Assistants teach French in Kenya.
Through this programme, TU-K has since benefitted having sent a total of 37 students in five cohorts in which they spent seven months each teaching English in France.
TU-K has so far hosted three French Language Assistants. “We have 14 students who were lucky to have their contracts renewed and they will be returning to France and actually some have already travelled. We also have other 10 students traveling for the first time to France,” Dr. Teresa Atieno Otieno, said.
Dr. Otieno is the Academic Team Leader, Modern and Classical Languages and is the TU-K coordinator of the programme. Some of the Language Assistants have been lucky to have their contracts renewed even for the third time, while others have secured scholarship opportunities to study Masters’ degrees in France.
Three students from the university have also secured job opportunities at the French Embassy in Nairobi. They include; Cyril Savai, Sylvia Ndwiga & Audrey Nakhatama
The VC, Prof. Benedict Mutua, met some of the travelling students and expressed his excitement and challenged them to be good ambassadors of the University and at the same time network for more opportunities.
The VC, flanked by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Institutional Advancement and Enterprise, Prof. Paul Wambua met the students and presented them with certificates.
