First year students admitted to the University of Nairobi for the academic year 2012/2013 have already settled down in their new life and progressing well with their academic life.

Despite the scheduled orientation week having been disrupted by the nationwide university staff strike, the first years have been exposed in detail to the facilities in their respective colleges and campuses and those of the entire University through orientation. Academic activities comprising lectures, practicals and tutorials are going on normally since last week when the industrial action by members of staff was called off.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George Magoha challenged the over 10,000 new students to make good use of the available resources and experience growth in intellectual knowledge, personality, cultural enrichment, building personal friendships and career planning. The University of Nairobi admits undergraduate and postgraduate students annually in three tranches – January, May and September. The biggest group is however admitted in September which comprises all government sponsored students commonly known as regular students.

Meanwhile, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th years in the Faculties of Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, the Schools of Built Environment, Arts and Design, Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Education, Computing and Informatics are scheduled to report on 1^st October, 2012. While second and fourth year students in the Faculty of Arts, Schools of Education, Business, Law, Economics and the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies will report on 8^th October, 2012.

The University wishes all its students and members of staff a successful 2012-2013 academic year.