Cooperative University College of Kenya
Cooperative University College of Kenya was founded in 1952, when a training centre was established at the then Jeans School in Kabete. This centre trained Government Cooperative Inspectors.In 1961, the centre was phased out and a school of cooperatives introduced at the Kenya Institute of Administration to train Government officers at both certificate and diploma levels.
From 1967, the college has operated as a department of the Ministry of Cooperative Development and Marketing, with its establishment as a body corporate by the Cooperative University College of Kenya Act, 1995. In 1969, construction work at the Lang’ata campus started and the campus opened its doors in 1972, to train government and cooperative employees at both certificate and diploma levels. The Cooperative College was built in 1972 with equipment either donated or imported from some of the Nordic countries at a cost of Kshs15 million. Kenya contributed 25 per cent of the cost.
The cooperative training programmes, which were being under-taken at KIA and the Alien Road campuses moved to the modern facility built at Karen.
The Cooperative University College of Kenya Act chapter 490A (Revised 1996) made the college a semi-autonomous government agency under the Ministry of Cooperative Development and Marketing.
Through Legal Notice No. 69 of 2011 dated November, 11, 2011, The Cooperative College of Kenya Was transformed into The Cooperative University College of Kenya, a constituent college of Jomo Kenya University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). Transition arrangements from college to university are underway.
The college offers a variety of programmes from certificate, diploma and degree in cooperative management, cooperative audit, cooperative banking.
Over the last 40 years alone, the Cooperative University College of Kenya has trained over 5,000 students and contributing significantly to the critical number of the people working in government as co-operative officers and in the cooperative movement as managers and middle level staff. This number excludes lower level courses such as certificate in Cooperative Business (CBA), Coffee Factory Management (CFM) and short tailor—made courses provided to the government, movement and foreign students from Rwanda, South Sudan and South Africa.
Since inception in 1971 to 2011, the institution has graduated nearly 5,000 students in Bachelor of Cooperative Business (130 grandaunts), Diploma in Cooperative Management (2,312), Diploma in Cooperative Audit (298), Diploma in Cooperative Banking (212), Certificate in Cooperative Administration (1,694) and 161 with Certificate in Cooperative Banking.
The college is currently offering degree, diploma and certificate programmes in cooperative business, management and banking.
Its courses are both residential and distance learning.
The institution also has tailor-made courses for cooperative board and committee members, staff and the government cooperative officials.
The college established Agri and Cooperative Training and Consultancy Services Ltd to transfer know-how and innovative skills to small-scale farmers seeking to develop strong groups or cooperatives.
The company offers short training programmes in farming as a business, organizational development, marketing and value chain development, microfinance for small—holder producer groups, business planning and development, legal aspects of cooperatives, and accounting and financial management.
The University Cooperative College of Kenya, through Ethiopia’s Oromia Cooperative Promotion Bureau, helped establish a Cooperative Training Centre in the country.
The college sent two of its lecturers to Ethiopia for nine months training local trainers, identify training needs, develop a curricula and training manuals.
The college developed a three-month basic cooperative management course for 118 Ethiopian government and movement officers at sessions held in Kenya. The programme helped to revitalize cooperatives activity in Ethiopia.
The college helped to develop courses and training materials for Rwanda’s Department of Cooperatives.
Government officers responsible for the promotion and supervision of cooperatives in Kwa Zulu Natal Province, South Africa, attended a month’s training session at the college on various aspects of the movement.
South Africa’s University of Zulu Land is in the process of establishing a department of cooperatives. It sent two of its lecturers to The Cooperative University College of Kenya for a two-month training stint on cooperatives.
The College is helping the university develop a curriculum for cooperative education and training.
Cooperative University College of Kenya Courses offered
Bachelor Courses
Bachelor of Co-operative Business (BCOB)
Bachelor of Co-operatives and Community Development (BCCD)
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom, B.COM, BComm, B.COMM)
Bachelor of Disaster Management (BDM)
Bachelor of Finance and Investment Management (BFI)
Diploma Courses
Diploma in Business Administration (DBA)
Diploma in Business information Technology (DBIT)
Diploma in Catering and Hotel Management
Diploma in Community Development and Social Work
Diploma in Human Resource Management
Diploma in information Technology
Diploma in Marketing
Diploma in Public Relations
Diploma in Purchasing and Supplies Management
Certificate Courses
Certificate in Purchasing and Supplies Management
Cooperative University College of Kenya Contacts
The Principal
The Co-operative University College of Kenya
P.O Box 24814-00502 Karen- Nairobi
E-MAIL: coopcoll@cooperative.ac.ke or barua@cuck.ac.ke
LANDLINE PHONE: +254 020 8891401-4
MOBILE: +254 724311606, or
WIRELESS: 020 2430127/020 2679546
FAX: +254 0208891410
The Co-ordinator, Nairobi Campus
Co-operative University College of Kenya
Ufundi Coop. Plaza (6th and 7th Floor), Moi Avenue
Nairobi
POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O Box 102314-0010 1
E-MAIL: degree@cooperative.ac.ke
LANDLINE PHONE: 020 -2244596, 2619441/2619439
The Co-ordinator, Meru Campus
Co-operative College of Kenya
Ntiminyakiru building, next to Angaine plaza
POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O Box 1957 – 60200 Meru
E-MAIL: merucampus@cooperative.ac.ke
LANDLINE PHONE: 064 -30104
The Co-ordinator, Mombasa Campus
Co-operative College of Kenya
Government Training Institute, Mombasa
POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O Box 84027—-801100, Mombasa
E-MAIL: msacampus@cooperative.ac.ke
LANDLINE PHONE: 2228800/6871/Ext 299
041-2227113
WEBSITE: www.cooperative.ac.ke