Allow 600,000 students apply for courses, Azimio tells KUCCPS
Azimio has urged Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) to provide KCSE graduates with an additional opportunity to apply for admission to universities and colleges in 2022.
Opiyo Wandayi, the leader of the minority party in the National Assembly, suggested that KUCCPS open the third review of courses to provide the more than 600,000 people who were excluded a chance.
“The future of over half a million young people is now at risk,” he added. “The cost of application was placed at Sh1,500 per application for a young person to be placed in a college coupled with lack of information about the process.”
According to a statement from Wandayi, Kenyans have also highlighted with amazement and dismay the high tuition costs and excessive fee schedules at Kenyan public universities.
The government has acknowledged that, of the 881,416 students who took the KCSE examinations in 2022, 600,000 did not apply to attend colleges or institutions.
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According to Wandayi, “the new classification of citizens has cunningly placed very few (29%) in the category of vulnerable and very needy people who will qualify for 100% support in scholarships and loans leaving the majority to struggle with large student loan debt and parental burden.”
He claimed that the so-called new funding model had deceitfully moved responsibility for paying for education from the government to parents and students through pricey loans.
The government conveniently covers 28% of the cost, therefore it is official that individuals who do not fit into the vulnerable or needy groups will pay up to 62% of the cost of their studies.
He continued by saying that the former system called for parents to pay 20% of college costs and the government to cover 80%.
Allow 600,000 students apply for courses, Azimio tells KUCCPS
