Government sponsored students will now be admitted to private universities in an effort to deal with the problem of congestion in public varsities.
The recently formed Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS), formerly known as Joint Admission Board (JAB), will be tasked with admitting students to universities in September.
KUCCPS announced that the cut-off placement for degree programmes is B (60 points) for male candidates and B- (58 points) for female candidates.
This year, the number of students who qualified for admission to public universities went up to 74,389 compared to last year's 67,790.
In 2012, the Universities Act was passed in order to allow government-sponsored students be admitted to private universities. However, government-sponsored students are yet to be admitted to the private universities.
Speaking during a farewell ceremony for former United States International University-Africa (USIU-A) vice-chancellor Freida Brown in Nairobi, Education Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i said that KUCCPS would prepare a report on how the students will be admitted.
“Private universities have capacities and we should allow them to take a share of the students instead of confining the students to public universities that have no capacity,” said Dr Matiang’i.
This comes as Kenya prepares to do away with the 8-4-4 education system and adopt the proposed 2-6-3-3-3.
