The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) on Friday, April 18, announced vacancies in 26 Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) diploma and certificate programmes.
“Good news to applicants looking for KMTC courses. Following the recent placement of students to KMTC, 26 programmes still have limited vacancies,” KUCCPS announced.
KUCCPS revealed that interested applicants should visit their portal, which lists the minimum requirements and available KMTC campuses. At the same time, they noted that interested applicants had 12 days left before the lapse of the application window.
“The programmes, their minimum requirements and available KMTC campuses are listed on the KUCCPS Student’s Portal. Log in to the portal to apply. Deadline is April 30, 2025,” they stated.
Available programmes include Certificate in Community Health Assistant, Certificate in Health Records and Information Technology, Certificate in Medical Emergency Technician, Certificate in Medical Engineering, and Certificate in Nutrition and Dietetics.
Others are Certificate in Orthopaedic Trauma Medicine, Certificate in Public Health, Diploma in Community Health, Diploma in Emergency Medical Technology, Diploma in Health Counselling, Diploma in Health Insurance Management, and Diploma in Health Promotion.
Additional diploma programmes are Diploma in Health Records and Information Technology, Diploma in Medical Engineering, Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences, Diploma in Medical Social Work, Diploma in Mortuary Science, Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics, and Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
Further programmes are Diploma in Orthopaedic Technology, Diploma in Orthopaedic and Trauma Medicine, Diploma in Pharmacy, Diploma in Physiotherapy, Diploma in Public Health, Diploma in Radiography and Imaging, and Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy.
At the same time, KUCCPS refuted claims of a systems failure in its operations, maintaining that ongoing university applications for universities were progressing smoothly.
Addressing the media during a monitoring visit to Nyamache Sub-county, KUCCPS Director for Placement and Career Development, John Oluoch, dismissed concerns about the alleged technical issues. He affirmed that the process is still active and will continue until April 30, 2025, targeting over 246,000 students eligible for placement into universities, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions, Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs), and other post-secondary institutions.
He noted that the agency had strategically deployed staff countrywide to assist applicants and ensure that no eligible student is left behind.
Even so, KUCCPS urged candidates who qualified to join university to submit their applications before the deadline.
This comes after Ministry of Education officials expressed concern that more than half of the students who scored Grade C+ and above had yet to submit their applications.
