La Salle College of Education, Science & Technology (LSC-EST) will be in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya on a ten (10) acres piece of land made available by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the Lwanga District of English-Speaking Africa. The location will be exceptionally conducive for learning. La Salle College will neighbor other institutions such as Tangaza University, Marist International University College, Kenya School of Law, Multi-Media University, Kenya Medical Training College, and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. This will give LSC-EST a great opportunity to cooperate with like-minded institutions of higher learning. LSC-EST will be within a reachable distance to informal settlements such as Kuwinda and Kibera. 

Kibera is the largest informal settlement in Nairobi and the second-largest urban informal settlement in Africa. Conditions in Kuwinda and Kibera are extremely challenging, and most of its residents lack adequate access to basic services such as schools, clinics, recreation centres, electricity, and running water. The setting up of LSC-EST close to these informal settlements will provide educational opportunities to a substantial number of high school graduates from these places and many others from economically marginalized and hardship areas.

The establishment of LSC-EST comes at a time when powerful megatrends such as globalization; digitalization; modern technology; population growth and urbanization; climate change; and food security are having enormous impacts on social economic development all over the world. This unfortunate scenario has seen Kenya grapple with: a high number of jobless young adults; a huge digital gap between the few who have access to ICT and the majority who lack it; mushrooming of more informal settlements, commonly known as slums; more Kenyans heavily relying on food aid due to prolonged droughts as a result of climate change; millions of Kenyans falling into poverty; limited educational facilities; challenges in the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC); and a higher education that urgently needs reinvention. This transformation requires a rethink of both the access to education and the quality of education available.