Dr. Anderson N. Maina, PhD

Talked to someone who graduated Stanford last year — 1. said that grade inflation was so out of control that much of the class has a 3.9+ because professors just hand out A+’s now. 2. said they made majors like chemE dramatically easier by removing required “hard” classes

It doesn’t stop at the undergraduate level. At the PhD level, standards have eroded as well. Candidacy and defense exams are largely ceremonial. Dismissing students for poor performance is extremely difficult, and in some cases faculty face consequences for trying to enforce standards. Students can quiet quit, continue receiving stipends, and coast until they choose to leave. Some do minimal work and still complete a PhD in as little as three years. Funding agencies such as NIH reinforce this by emphasizing throughput metrics like time to graduation as a condition of funding. The result is a lowering of standards at every stage.

South Africa - eaten alive by its own inhabitants.

Seeing the prices of these Chinese mini-equipments reminds me if we're to industrialise we'd not be starting from zero. From farmland to factories. >We need to fix our tax regime and cost of doing business while all boil down to "Uko kadi?"

Karibu huyo madam aende sayuni juu ya matatu inapita wrong side 🤦🏾‍♂️

I came across an insightful paper and was surprised to learn it was authored by Rwanda’s Prime Minister. Looking into his profile, it’s refreshing to see a seasoned technocrat in such a role especially one shaped by Kenya’s higher education system.