Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC)

The Kenya Institute of Mass Communication is the government's media training college, set on its own grounds on Uholo Road in South B, a short way off Mombasa Road. It grew out of the Voice of Kenya training school, which first taught broadcast engineers from a wooden building near Kenyatta National Hospital before moving to the purpose-built South B site in 1968. Radio and television production followed in 1969, print journalism in 1970 and film production in 1975, and in 2011 the institute became a semi-autonomous government agency with a mandate to train for the communication and cinematic arts. Today it offers certificates, diplomas and one-year postgraduate diplomas in journalism, public relations and advertising, film and video production, TV and radio production, web and graphic design, and electronic and broadcast engineering. Training is hands-on, using studios, editing suites and engineering workshops, and the institute also runs its own broadcast frequency. It admits government-sponsored and self-sponsored students in several intakes a year, has a second campus in Eldoret and has trained media staff from several other African countries.