This was the question the Senate and the University of Nairobi Council has undertaken to unravel as the team appointed by the same is going around various Faculties to counter check if their courses and curriculum have been aligned with Competency-Based Education and Training (CBET) an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on the ability to perform tasks to industry standards, rather than the number of hours a student spends in class.

The students admitted under the CBET Program will be joining campus in the next 3 years and there are various efforts by the government to have University courses and curriculum aligned to the CBET curriculum.

The university courses needs to be aligned to the various pathways, namely STEM, Social Sciences and finally Arts and Sports Science pathways.

Like all other Faculties has done, the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences is expected to appoint a CBET Team that will look into alignment and realignment of the current programs and courses to the CBET. They will track CBET preparedness of the faculty. The exercise will take three weeks and by the end of March 2026, a report of the same will be presented to the University Management.

The CBET team will be looking at status of the programs, infrastructure development, human resource this being lecturer to student ratios. The team will be furnished with already developed templates to help them in conducting needs assessment.

It was revealed that the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences will play a critical role in teaching common units among all Faculties as students will need to be taught entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

In some instances and in some faculties, there will be a need to develop new courses into the pathways. Courses that incorporates multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary competencies, industry regulations, values based, community engagements, pedagogical approaches and learner centeredness.