The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has reopened the placement portal to allow KCSE 2023 candidates to review and revise applications made in February and March.
In a notice dated Wednesday, March 19, it was noted that the portal would also be accessible to students who had not made their applications during the first window.
According to the placement body, the portal will be open till April 4, 2024.
"The KUCCPS application portal is open for the First Revision of applicants’ choices for placement to Universities, TVET Institutions, Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC).
"The target is applicants who have not secured any of their choices submitted in February/March 2024 and 2023 KCSE examination candidates with C+ and above who did not apply for Degree Programmes during the February/March 2024 application period," read the notice in part.
Kenyans who sat for KCSE from 2000 to 2023 and are yet to join a tertiary institution have also been advised to take advantage of the application window and choose a course of their choice at TVET institutions across the country.
How to Check & Revise Applications
All students who made their applications during the first window have been advised to check on the status of their applications by accessing the student portal: students.kuccps.net.
Should a student find that their application to a particular course and university was not successful, they can apply for another course based on their KCSE results and the cutoff points.
On the other hand, those who are making their applications for the first time can also access the student portal to apply for the same.
Worrying Trends Reported During the First Applications
According to KUCCPS Chief Executive Officer Agnes Mercy Wahome, very few students who qualified for TVET courses submitted their applications.
688,591 students attained mean grades between C and E and qualified for a course in TVET institutions. Many students were focusing on degree courses.
"The CEO also observed that some programmes offered in some of the institutions were not up to date with the current trends. She cited Irrigation System Installation courses, which none of the institutions offered despite Agriculture being a priority sector in the Government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
"Media and communication courses in some of the institutions did not include drone photography or videography that many events require nowadays," read the statement dated March 8.
