Kenya has called for the need to encourage student exchange programs between Kenya and South Korea in a move to improve access to higher education and ensure student success in the two nations.

Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka late Thursday that it was through student exchange programs that educational activities between the two countries could be improved.

"There is need to encourage student exchange programs at all levels to gain deeper understanding of each other besides learning the cultural activities of our nations," Musyoka when he met a group of students from South Korea in Nairobi.

He said it was through student exchange programs that educational activities between the two countries could be improved.

The VP told the students from 25 different universities that it was only through investments in educations that the problems facing the two nations could be solved.

He praised the cordial relations between Kenya and South Korea and called for more cross border investments as one way of improving the economic ties between the two nations.

"South Korea is among the true friends of Kenya who have assisted us in various development projects," Musyoka said.

Meanwhile, the VP said the government recognizes the vital role played by the British Council in the development of education in the country.

Musyoka said it is encouraging to learn that the council is putting more efforts in research innovations aimed at exploring ways of promoting educational activities in the country.

He said it was further impressing that the British Council was concentrating on the development of the vocational among other learning institutions in the country.

"I must appreciate the council's efforts to promoting educational activities for the sake of the development of the sector in the country," the VP said peaking he received the acting chairman of the British Council Gerard Lemos.

Lemos on his part said that the British Council will embark of education aimed at creating awareness to young people on the need to conserve the environment as one way of addressing the effects of the climate change.

He said the drought which has been witnessed in many parts of the worlds was as a result of the climate change caused by the destruction of the environment.