Associate Professor of Education
Professor Simon K. Ngigi is the Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at KCA University. He is an Associate Professor of Education with over twenty (20) years of teaching & research experience, eleven (11) of which he has served at senior level in University Management. He holds a PhD in Educational Research and Evaluation, MEd in Educational Psychology, BSc in Biological Sciences (botany/zoology) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE). Prof. Ngigi is an accomplished scholar with a proven track record evidenced by over thirty-seven (37) publications in peer refereed journals, books and proceedings. He has successfully supervised over thirty-five (35) postgraduate students at both Masters and PhD levels and examined many thesis and research projects.
Professor Ngigi is passionate about research and has ten (10) research-funded projects to his credit, several consultancies and grants e.g. from the Center for parliamentary studies and training (CPST); USAID; AHADI; UNWomen; RET; SUNNY-Kenya; Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD); Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE-Kenya); Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) and Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA). Previously Prof. Ngigi was the Executive Director, CUEA Gaba Campus Eldoret, Registrar academic and for many years as Senior lecturer at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Between 2016 and 2019, Prof. Ngigi was able to mobilize Euro 100, 000.00 to co-finance AMECEA Pastoral Institute (API) course for forty (40) Pastoral Agents (Project No. 100000-0628-2016-V). In 2017, Prof. Ngigi mobilized Kshs 8,000,000.00 in a funded project “Safaricom CEE mteja training Program” at CUEA Gaba Campus, where over 200 students benefitted from liquid workforce training between October 2017 and December 2018.
Prof. Ngigi has served as an Assistant Director, research monitoring and evaluation at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). At KICD, Ngigi was involved in curriculum development, review and related research activities, specifically, he played the lead role in design and methodology in curriculum development research-based activities that informed development and or review of various national curricula for all levels of education except the university. In addition, he was involved in MoE vetting of textbooks. Specifically, he played the role of moderator and TOT for the agriculture panel on evaluation techniques for vetting agriculture textbooks and supplementary curriculum support materials between 2005 and 2009.
Prof. Ngigi is a member of American Educational Research Association (AERA) membership no. 1037708; editorial board member for the East African Journal of Educational Research at KICD; Book review committee member, African Sisters Education Collaborative (ASEC). His current interest is on the State of Digital Pedagogy and Training in Higher Education in Africa.
