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Monday,Nov 23,2009
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Amadu Jacky Kaba is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Department of Public and Healthcare Administration, SetonHallUniversity, USA.
(2) Language (English)
Language might be another contributor to the relatively high number of Kenyan students in U.S. colleges and Universities. Kenya, like 18 other African countries were once partly or fully colonized by the United Kingdom and English is an official language in Kenya. Because students are taught English in primary and secondary schools and colleges and universities in Kenya, it increases their chances of being accepted to colleges and universities in the United States, where English is the language of instruction
(3) Demography
Scholars studying population trends have been pointing to the decline in the average number of children born to a Kenyan woman. They argue that this brings some economic benefits, which in turn will result in a higher number of educated Kenyans, who might travel to the U.S. for further education. As of 2004, while the average number of children born to an African woman (fertility rate) was 4.36 (5.25 in Middle Africa and 5.21 in West Africa), it was 3.31 for Kenya.[4] The average for the world in 2005 is 2.6 children born per woman.
According to demographers, when the average family starts having fewer children, it means that more resources will be spent on a fewer number of children, which in turn might result in an improved standard of living. This means that parents and family members might even have enough money to send their young adults abroad to further their education. One could not directly say that this is happening with Kenyan students in the U.S., but there is the possibility that parents having fewer children in Kenya might begin to have the types of savings needed to send their children to colleges and universities in the United States.
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