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Harvard University to Admit Kenyan Students in Honor of Late Professor Calestous Juma

Harvard University to Admit Kenyan Students in Honor of Late Professor Calestous Juma

Equity Bank will from 2018 begin to offer scholarships to Kenyan students to study at Harvard University in the United States.

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The Bank announced that under its Wings to Fly scholarship programme, two top performing students in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) will be given full scholarships to study at the ivy league institution.

Equity Group Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi said that Harvard University agreed to the proposal in honour of late Kenyan scholar Professor Calestous Juma, who was a lecturer at the institution until his demise last week.

Mwangi was speaking on Saturday during a meeting held at the bank’s offices in Upper Hill, Nairobi, where nine beneficiaries of the Bank's scholarship programme were unveiled. The nine scored As in the recently released 2017 KCSE exam results.

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  1. Rung'uthuDec 24, 2017

    Are there corruption courses at HARVARD?All Kenyan students who went to HARVARD,YALE,STANFORD etc before 2016 should be re-tested with KCSE again and those who fail should be forced to repeat high school again.Only Raila,a carpenter and a holder of fake engineering degree from unknown marxist university and his blind worshipers are defending exam cheating in Kenya.

  2. GuestDec 25, 2017

    What synthetic drugs is this commentator smoking???

  3. OmeraDec 26, 2017

    Pole sana @Anonymous for being one of the fake pre-Matiang'i "A" holder.You are not alone but umbaya ni uguduliwe.Na ujue ata ukiwa Anonymous,hawa jamaa wanaweza kukusaka dakika yeyote.

  4. GuestDec 26, 2017

    Using "repeat" and "again" in the same sentence means you are the one who needs to be re-examined by your so called Mr Matiang'i. Bushit!!

  5. HakikweliJan 3, 2018

    Really!!!! Your name sounds like your rubbish words. Why can't you produce his fake certificate. We know who are fake in this country. Listen to what they say. They live up the hill in a free house and their "oblangatas are "kabut" empty !!😂😂😂👊➖

  6. GuestDec 27, 2017

    Something about this story sounds fishy.So what if I want to go to MIT will Equity force me to go to Harvard since they are paying. There are many Kenyans that have passed through Harvard I am not sure how Equity will increase overall Kenyan attendance at this institution which accepts candidates based on merit.

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