Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu will on Wednesday unveil the placement of 2022 KCSE candidates in universities and colleges.
The CS will officially commission the opening of the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) portal at the University of Nairobi.
The 2022 candidates will then be required to begin selecting their courses and their institutions of choice in the portal.
This comes in the wake of the unveiling of a new universities funding model by the government.
Wednesday's event will signal kick-start the 2023 placement cycle with candidates expected to make choices based on unit costs.
Universities had been directed to submit to Kuccps their unit costs to enable candidate select courses and institutions they can afford.
This is the first time that the government has directed institutions of higher learning to make public the cost of their units before students apply.
Under the new model that was unveiled by President William Ruto, the government will only pay capitation fees to students studying only in public universities.
Those who will choose private universities, which are considered as expensive, are expected to pay their own fees through enhance government loans.
Previously, universities have been funded through the Universities Funding using the differentiated unit cost (DUC) which was implemented in 2015.
It provides the maximum cost of courses across all universities but this is bound to change under the new system as universities have varying costs.
Only 173, 345 out of the 881, 416 students who sat the 2022 KCSE scored above a C plus to secure direct qualification for university admission.
This implies that some 713,073 students who wrote the exams will be accommodated in technical training institutes and other tertiary institutions.
In the 2022 KCSE results some 1,146 students score grades A plain compared to 1,138 in 2021.
Some 6,407 candidates got A minus, 15,682 scored grade B plus, some 31,303 scored B plain and 48,719 got B minus.
Some 70,088 scored grade C plus.
