A. Ahmed

Photogrammetric 3D Digitisation of Bajuni and Pokomo Cultural Artefacts: A 65-Artefact Proof-of-Concept at Fort Jesus, Kenya

Digital ‌preservation ‌opens ‌a practical route for protecting cultural objects that face material decay, shifting environmental conditions, limited accessibility, and the gradual erosion of contextual knowledge. This article documents a practice-oriented deployment of photogrammetric 3D digitisation carried out under...

AI-Enabled Cultural Heritage Preservation and a Browser-Based Virtual Museum: Design and Implementation of a Kenya Coastal Heritage Platform

Coastal Kenya holds a wide-ranging cultural heritage expressed in material artefacts, oral traditions, indigenous and local languages, historical knowledge, and everyday community practices. Yet these resources are increasingly strained by modernisation and global circulation, shifting modes of cultural transmission, a...

Labour ‌Market ‌Alignment ‌and Graduate Employability among TVET Alumni: Evidence from a Tracer Study at the Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is widely recognised as a key route for building the skilled labour force needed for industrial expansion, national competitiveness, and longer-term development goals. Even so, questions remain about whether TVET programmes consistently produce graduates whose comp...

Labour Market Alignment and Graduate Employability among TVET Alumni: Evidence from a Tracer Study at the Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya

Community ‌Stakeholder ‌Perceptions ‌of Market-Aligned Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET): Implications for Skills Development and Labour Market Alignment in Mombasa County, Kenya

Across policy and practice, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is increasingly treated as a practical route for tackling youth unemployment, narrowing skills gaps, and advancing sustainable socio-economic progress. Yet, even with wide-ranging reforms in Kenya’s TVET landscape, empirical work that ca...

Community Stakeholder Perceptions of Market-Aligned Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET): Implications for Skills Development and Labour Market Alignment in Mombasa County, Kenya

Student Experience and Programme Quality as Determinants of Student Satisfaction and Employability in Technical and Vocational Education and Training Institutions: Evidence from the Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya

Student ‌Experience ‌and ‌Programme Quality as Determinants of Student Satisfaction and Employability in Technical and Vocational Education and Training Institutions: Evidence from the Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is widely regarded as a core mechanism for building a skilled labour force that can sustain industrial expansion, innovation, and long-term economic development. In Kenya, reform efforts continue, yet there remains limited empirical work showing how multiple aspect...

Building ‌a ‌Transformer-Based ‌Neural Machine Translation System for English–Kibajuni Translation: A Low-Resource Deep Learning Approach for Indigenous Language Preservation

The design, construction, and assessment of a compact Transformer-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system for English–Kibajuni translation suggest that appropriately scaled Transformer models, paired with subword tokenization and carefully tuned training procedures, can materially advance digital inclusion and la...

Building a Transformer-Based Neural Machine Translation System for English–Kibajuni Translation: A Low-Resource Deep Learning Approach for Indigenous Language Preservation

The design, construction, and assessment of a compact Transformer-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system for English–Kibajuni translation suggest that appropriately scaled Transformer models, paired with subword tokenization and carefully tuned training procedures, can materially advance digital inclusion and la...