Corporate Interface

Oshwal College is passionate about the impact of students’ knowledge and how, in collaborative partnership, they can apply it to real situations.

The college’s strategic vision of developing careers and nurturing leaders responsive to the needs of the global society obligates us to institute corporate partnerships that are not only platforms that give the learners the needed industry exposure but also enhances both their theoretical and practical experience.

In this program, regular class learning is taken in line with corporate experience. In no-wise is corporate interface a simple cosmetic make over that is a creation of fallacy, rather a bold step intended to radically arm-twist the classroom learning to create a mosaic learning founded on practical learning.

To meet the enormous and growing tide on the need for learners and graduates to match the pressure of globalization and market fit, we as a learning institution have taken deliberate steps and actions so as to reinvent the education system to match the requirements of the future, to deal with the pressure exerted on the educational systems, and to match the progressively more competitive world of work.

We aim to bridge the current gap between the skills produced by education system and those looked-for by the market. As a learning provider we act as a true agent of preparing the students to face this competition prone world by training them to become autonomous leaners and not robots of learning.

To achieve this objective, we employ strategic reinforcements to help our students realize their individual potential and realign the learning process to the changing demands of the industry in terms of their skills set. This is where the need for corporate interface is established.

The corporate interface enables us to change the face of course delivery and hence creating leaders who are able to face the new demands and thus industrial fit.

In technical terms, our corporate interface program is a model, within the learning program, that helps in aligning learning process to specific skills requirements and infuses maximum exposure, thereby handing the students the experience from actual work environment.

It makes students’ learning most relevant and besides they are able to gain the most needed experience upon completing their respective studies hence competitive in the global world of work.

This deliberate combination of curtailed curriculum and real time experience is aimed to enhance the value of the learning program and most importantly enable our graduates excel in their careers choices.

It makes our programs much career oriented rather than chasing grades by instilling in our learners positive and confident attitude, a key ingredient for successful career.

It also spurs out the incredible potential from those learners considering themselves average and hence feel left behind in the traditional system.

Nevertheless, we also pride in our mentoring program both within the college and at their work postings as not only unique but also designed to promote learning environment.

We believe that the most appropriate tactic to relating our learning programs with the industrial expectations is by inventing the connections between the industry and the learners.

This we do by ensuring that the leaners are engaged in corporate visits during their studies and internships/attachments or work before they conclude their course of study.

Alongside their regular studies, learners are to be visiting or placed in prestigious corporates to work in different profiles and job roles.

As an institution that encourages extensive industry interaction, we organise seminars, workshops, symposia, industrial visits, guest lectures, industry training programmes and conferences at both local and international levels to sensitise students on the requirements of industry.

We maintain academia-industry relations with key corporations such as Grant Thornton, PKF Eastern Africa, Deloitte and Touché, RSM Eastern Africa, Dry Associates Investment Group, SILAFRICA, Kenafric Ltd, Pepsi, KAPA Oil Refineries Ltd, Haco Tiger Brands, Nestlé Foods, Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), Nairobi Bottlers Ltd, Tropical Heat Ltd, The iHub (Technology Innovation Community), and international research activities under the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) – UK.

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King, Jr.