Education: Graduate engineers protest new rulesEngineering students rekindles issues with regulator Engineering students are on a war path with the profession’s board following its draft rules for registration of graduate students. The students are contesting the draft Engineer’s rules 2018, which they say are discriminatory, dictatorial and punitive. “This limitation of the number of registered engineers in Kenya indicates the existence of grave issues regarding implementation and operationalisation of the Engineers Act 2011,” submitted Kamau. Kamau also argued that lack of exam schedule and procedures in law on constitution of examination panels was affecting the graduate engineers. The MPs took EBK Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Musuni to task on the three years wait before graduate engineers are registered.

Source: Standard Digital March 04, 2019 08:03 UTC