TVET colleges have enough admission slots for all qualified students – KUCCPS
Technical training institutions have enough capacity to admit all qualified students, according to Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS).
While 688,591 Kenyan citizen students attained mean grades between C and E in the 2023 KCSE examination, TVET institutions have provided 790,479 admission slots for placement, KUCCPS Chief Executive Officer Dr. Agnes Mercy Wahome told a TVET forum today.
“The country has enough capacity take care of all Kenyans,” she noted while addressing participants at the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) TVET Consultative Forum in Naivasha.
The CEO also observed that programmes offered in some 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, she added.
She also expressed concern with the low number of students applying for programmes offered in Ministry of Education’s TVET institutions.
Most of the students who qualified for TVET programmes had not applied by the time the KUCCPS application portal closed on March 4, 2024, she told the participants. “The system will open again in about a week or two to mop up more applicants.”
Candidates who scored E in the 2023 KCSE examination were the most affected as a majority of them had not submitted application for placement, the CEO observed.
The theme of the forum was: “Leaving No Student Behind: Aligning TVET Student Funding amidst Education Sector Reforms for Sustainability.”
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