(A 2.0 COURSE MANAGEMENT 
  
  
  
     
KENYA 2.1 Courses Conducted at the Training School 
rya. The first instructions of the Survey of Kenya training 
school was mainly basic courses in Land Survey. In later 
Mandera: years advanced courses were introduced together with 
rn courses in Cartography, Photolithography, 
Lodwar, Moyale Photogrammetry and Survey Records. 
M abusi The courses were designed to 
j- (a) Improve the individual efficiency of officers, 
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& Settlement Kisumu (b) Prepare the candidates to sit for trade tests 
and Kenyan MTS " Nakura rm (popularly referred to as occupational tests) 
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s and Map 4 * Nairobi | In principle the trade tests were primarily meant to 
-artography, i examine technicians who had trained on the job and the 
mu - - e . . * 
AC main purposes for administering the examination was 
tment of the RN 
yractical and 1 J i. to offer an avenue for the candidates to rise 
riods of the toast dm to the professional level. 
ntinent with T 
il. to upgrade the staff who successfully 
middle-level t completed any of the tests. 
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2.2 Transfer of Training Programme to the Kenya 
FD Ruirn t Polytechnic. 
In 1970, the Kenya Polytechnic started the Ordinary 
Diploma programme in Land Surveying and 
Cartography. Recognising the need for further 
expansion of the Survey activities outside the urban 
centres and settlement areas the Survey Department 
suspended its internal training and switched over to 
sponsoring, students to the Kenya Polytechnic to pursue 
Diploma courses. Suddenly the need for in-service 
training did not rate highly and it was anticipated that 
the graduates from the polytechnic would satisfy the 
AM needs of the Survey department. As a result the existing 
a classrooms of the school were converted into office space 
A= te Railway for cartographic work. 
  
  
  
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Soon after, the Department did not only realise the 
importance of running the in-service training for 
upgrading unskilled personnel but had also to keep up 
with insufficient supply of the Diploma pre-service 
In 1954 the school enrolled the first 24 African trainees from the Polytechnic. For instance the 
technician Surveyors. The training in cartography, Department was authorised to recruit and train +40 
Photogrammetry, Photolithography and Survey Record Survey Assistant but only 24 places were reserved. As 
immediately followed. the years went by the annual supply of Surveyors could 
not cope with the rising demand. The Polytechnic had 
been training for the Survey Department the following 
number of trainees on an annual basis. 
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