Month: Jan 2016
Don’t apply for admissions through other bodies KMTC now warns!
The Kenya Medical Training College has warned applicants seeking vacancies in the institution through the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS), saying they will not be considered if they do so.
The two institutions have been tussling over who should admit new students to the medical institution and the fight was taken to the High Court last year.
On Thursday, KMTC warned Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) graduates interested in joining the college after the release of 2015 exam results in February against applying for admission through any other channel besides theirs.
“KMTC will advertise for its training vacancies in all its campuses countrywide in the month of March, 2016. Candidates wishing to join KMTC for training are advised to apply directly to KMTC and not through any other body purporting to advertise for vacancies at KMTC,” said a notice placed in the dailies.
Recently, KUCCPS asked secondary school principals to submit students’ list of colleges and universities they wished to join after the results were released before last Friday.
“The applications to the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service are submitted online, but the principals are required to download, print and sign completed application documents containing the candidates’ choices and other details.
“These must be delivered to the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service offices by Friday, January 15, 2016,” said KUCCPS in their statement dated January 11.
Approximately 4,000 students found themselves in the middle of a supremacy battle between the two institutions last year after each claimed that it was the legally-recognised body to approve applications to the government-sponsored medical institution.
The battle found its way before Justice Weldon Korir after KUCCPS sued KMTC for refusing students it had already picked for the institution.
However, Attorney-General Githu Muigai intervened and the matter was settled out of court.
RECONCILE LISTS
KUCCPS withdrew the case and agreed to work with KMTC to reconcile both lists of students admitted.
On Thursday, KMTC’s Chief Executive Officer Peter Tum sought to set the record straight early enough before another tussle emerges.
The institution normally admits around 4,000 students annually to 42 branches across the country and said it will not recognise any application done through any other body.
“Applications channelled to KMTC through any other body will not be considered for admission at KMTC,” said Mr Tum, who is also the institution’s director.
KUCCPS was formed in 2012 following the enactment of the Universities Act, 2012 to take over from the Joint Admissions Board which was mostly tasked to pick students to join universities.
Before then, individual colleges, including KMTC, picked their own students because they was no central body to do so.
However, KUCCPS last year went to court in September to contest a decision by KMTC to pick students without their involvement, saying it was the sole institution enjoying that mandate.
Appearing before the judge last October, the two institutions said they had reached an agreement to reconcile their lists but allow KMTC to do the admission.
“KMTC is the only institution mandated to select and place students to its campuses countrywide,” said Mr Tum.
ABDALLAHJEI. 