{"id":184743,"date":"2024-11-16T22:45:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T20:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-urges-universities-to-specialise-in-core-areas-of-academic-strength\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T22:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T20:45:25","slug":"kenya-president-ruto-urges-universities-to-specialise-in-core-areas-of-academic-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-urges-universities-to-specialise-in-core-areas-of-academic-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: President Ruto Urges Universities to Specialise in Core Areas of Academic Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenyan universities should specialise in core areas of academic strength in order to enhance their competitive advantage, President William Ruto has recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">By so doing, the President said each university will nurture certain disciplines and curve out a niche that will allow them to thrive in the modern world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;There is a temptation in our institutions of higher learning to do too many courses and end up being a jack of all trades and a master of none,&#8221; he said at the inaugural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411150370.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan universities should specialise in core areas of academic strength in order to enhance their competitive advantage, President William Ruto has recommended. By so doing, the President said each university will nurture certain disciplines and curve out a niche that will allow them to thrive in the modern world. &#8220;There is a temptation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":184744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[14155,258,256,7311,10600,4688,430,257,2450,11238,254,24103,13969,18368,6810],"class_list":["post-184743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-academic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-areas","tag-core","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-specialise","tag-strength","tag-universities","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}