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The University of Eastern Africa, Baraton (UEAB) is a private coeducational Seventh-day Adventist university located about 50 km from Eldoret Kenya. It offers various degrees in a number of graduate and undergraduate programs in the fields of Business, the Humanities, Agriculture, Technology, Health Sciences and Education. Baraton University, as it is popularly known, is run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and is part of its system of higher education. It is fully accredited by the Commission for Higher Education, Kenya Government, and was the first private University to receive a Charter granted by the republic of Kenya on March 28, 1991. The University is also a member of the Inter-University Council for East Africa, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Association of African Universities. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.〔http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1115/For-real-education-reform-take-a-cue-from-the-Adventists"the second largest Christian school system in the world has been steadily outperforming the national average – across all demographics."〕〔http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/seventh_day_adventist.htm〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://education.gc.adventist.org/about.html )〕 The mission of UEAB is the provision and advancement of a holistic Christian quality education for the youth with the aim of equipping them with necessary skills for service for God and humanity. ==History== The beginning of the Seventh-day Adventist education in this part of Africa dates back to the establishment of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region. The earliest church was established in Tanzania in 1903, followed by church work around Lake Victoria, especially with the 1906 establishment of a mission at the Homa-Bay County's Gendia, the current location of the Kendu Adventist Hospital, Gendia High School and the Africa Hearald and Publishing House. In 1928 what is now known as Kamagambo Adventist College was established in Rongo Town, Migori County. Many primary and secondary school have since been established. Some of these have been offering post secondary education, but none of them has offered a full bachelor's degree program. For this reason, students desiring that level of education in an Adventist institution before 1980 had to go outside Eastern Africa. During the 1970s, the Middle East University in Beirut Lebanon served many such students. Thus there was a great need for a full-fledged university in Eastern Africa. In October 1978, the Board of the Afro-Mideast Division of Seventh-day Adventists took an action to establish such a university in Kenya on December 21, 1978. The Kenya Government allotted the Baraton Animal Husbandry Research Station of 339 acres (1.37 km²) in Nandi District to the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the purpose of founding what is now known as the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton. Classes began in January 1980 in the temporary farm structures. Some of these structures have since been replaced with new and modern buildings. According to Okoth-Yogo,〔Okoth-Yogo, Kiboyye & Antony Sisa Mbayaki (2007). Crafting the best Practices for Higher Education in Kenya and Intellectual Asset Management. Moi University Graduate Students Association (MUGSA)Lecture, 2nd December, Margaret Thatcher Library.〕 there are two unique learning experiences at the EUAB that you will hardly get in any other Kenyan University. The first one is the insistence on reaffirming interdisciplinary learning by prescribing an admixture of liberal arts, natural sciences and basic survival skills such as information technology, communications and the mathematics, music, health principles, physical education... with whatever one’s major area of study is. He says that “as an undergraduate student who had gone through the Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (KACE) and specialized in History, Literature and Geography, I was compelled to go through biology, chemistry and mathematics classes, even as I pursued my degree in History…When I eventually studied law, it was very easy for me to work on issues such as bio-prospecting, environmental assessments, natural products industrialization, technology transfer, intellectual property rights, easily veering from the humanities and social sciences into the world of science and technology.” The second uniqueness is the university's insistence on work based education. Most UEAB graduates shall have had lots of work experience by the time they graduate with a first degree, because this is part of the curriculum. In such work programs work ethics is greatly emphasized. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Eastern Africa, Baraton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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