It’s goodbye for Parallel programs as KUCCPS absorbs all University placements.

The Government will fund university and college education for 116,718 students who sat last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KSCE) exams.

This is the highest number of students the Government has committed to sponsor for higher education.

The Kenya Universities and Colleges Placement Service (KUCCPS) revealed the details during a stakeholders’ meeting yesterday as admission data for qualified students was released.

KUCCPS Chief Executive Officer John Muraguri said 88,626 candidates who scored C+ and above had all been allocated courses of their choice.

Of these, Mr Muraguri said public universities had been allocated 71,089 students while private institutions will absorb a record 17,368.

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Updates for University Placement released by KUCCPS.

 The placement results released on Wednesday show that 88,626 students have been admitted to public and private universities this year. Half the freshmen are women.

 The results were released at Daystar by Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service chief executive John Muraguri.

He disclosed that students who scored good grades such as B plain and above missed their courses of choice since they went for courses that they did not qualify for when clustered.

“Those who scored C+ grade got their degree choices,” said Mr Muraguri.

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