KENYA: Promote Entrepreneurship, New CUEA Vice Chancellor appeals to Stakeholders in Education
Prof. Stephen Mbugua, the Appointed cuea Vice Chancellor
Rev. Prof. Stephen Mbugua, the newly appointed Vice Chancellor of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa CUEA has appealed to all stakeholders in the education sector to ensure that education is translated into deliverables for the good of society.
Speaking during the Second Annual Conference on Social Entrepreneurship organized by Tangaza University College, a constituent college of CUEA, Prof Mbugua who until his appointment to CUEA has been the Vice Chancellor Designate for Tangaza College said that it is about time that learners change from doing studies for white collar careers to studying for what they want to invent.
“We need to ask young people what they want to invent rather than what they merely want to be. The current trends in global unemployment levels are due to poverty and over dependency on already established careers and technologies and this is what social entrepreneurship tends to address,” Prof Mbugua explained.
Prof Mbugua who is a priest from the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru observed that there are many opportunities for growth and poverty eradication at our disposals that only await the right approaches to entrepreneurship.
“We need not end at the research findings or concept incubation; we must move to mass production of the findings. We need many voices of ‘eureka’ from the academic and research world to come out and make it known, teach it, experiment it and make it usable for the good of the society.”
Prof Mbugua challenged governments and stakeholders to support entrepreneurship as part of the actualization of both millennium and sustainable development goals because, according to him, entrepreneurship should help reduce the tax burden on the society by creating alternative sources of wealth and income generation to governments and workers.
He further indicated that having limited sources of revenue means limited tax regime base, which translates to high taxation on the people. This problem can only be solved by entrepreneurs.
The Tangaza University College Second Annual Conference on Social Entrepreneurship 2018 was held between 20th and 21st September 2018 under the theme: Contextualizing and Shaping Social Entrepreneurship in Africa
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By Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Online News
