Kisii University marketing team has extended its recruitment mission to neighbouring Nyamira County to woo more students to the institution.
This move is in a bid to lay strategies of countering the proposed institution from the county that is due to be built at Kiabonyoru area.
According to existing statistics, the institution which is located in Kisii County is said to be harbouring over 50 per cent of its students from Nyamira County, something that might change drastically when the new Nyamira University is constructed.
Speaking on Saturday at Gesima, the institution’s marking department led by Mr Henry Monyancha urged parents to continue enrolling their children to the institution due to its good reputation and for having existed for quite number of years.
“These two counties have been working very well and in fact, most of our students come from Nyamira. Let us continue enrolling our children to Kisii University because we have been in the market for quite a while and the quality of our students is evident. We will give an additional of four students a scholaship,” said Mr Monyancha.
He faulted the Nyamira County government for its decision to set a memorandum of understanding with the University of Eldoret for the proposed University citing the long term partnership as the major reason.
“We have been partners for a long time and we were shocked that the county government of Nyamira decided to establish a university without even consulting us. We have a satellite campus at Nyamira and they should have liaised with us to help them come up with a constituent college,” added Mr Monyancha.
Recently, Nyamira County government entered into a memorandum of understanding with the University of Eldoret to build a university in the region, something that might lead to a low enrolment to the first university in the Gusii region (Kisii University).