Last Updated 14 years ago by Kenya Engineer
University students from Egerton and Masinde Muliro are celebrating after winning a long time court case battle with the Engineers Registration Board (ERB), Higher Education ministry and Commission for Higher Education over registration.
Justice David Majanja, who made the ruling, said the ERB had no mandate to regulate engineering courses at public universities and ordered it to place adverts in two dailies within 14 days inviting graduates to apply for registration.
The judge said any degree certificate from a recognised institution was evidence of training and it was illegal for the ERB to deny the graduates registration because it did not accredit the courses offered at the two institutions.
The board’s refusal to recognise engineering courses offered at the institutions sparked several protests since 2007, the latest being October last year when more than 400 students boycotted classes to protest at the delay in registering them. The affected courses are Electrical and Communications Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
ERB was also ordered to compensate each of them with Sh200,000.
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