Private universities have one week to enrol the first 10,000 students sponsored by the government starting today, the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service has said.
This follows last week’s announcement by President Uhuru Kenyatta that the governme sponsored students to private universities. The KUCCPS said online applications from interested students start today and closes on August 31.
Students will use the KUCCPS portal. The service had placed 74,389 students who sat the 2015 KCSE exam in public universities during this year’s intake.
The KUCCPS chief executive, John Muraguri, said this lowers the degree programme cut-off points for government sponsorship to private universities by two points. The cut-off points now stand at a mean grade of B– of 56 and 57 points for girls and 58 and 59 points for boys. The initial cut-off for degree programmes was a B of 60 points for male candidates and a B- of 58 points for female candidates.
The government will pay Sh70,000 per student.
