2022 KCSE Candidates Won’t Be placed In Private Universities
Parliamentarian are pushing for a motion to see the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) does not place 2022 KCSE Candidates in private schools.
If the move succeeds, then private universities would have been dealt a blow that will see them grapple with financial crisis.
This therefore implies that if the move sails through, then all the 174,965 students who qualified for university placement will be placed in public universities across the country.
This plan was revealed recently when the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) CEO Mercy Wahome appeared before the Parliamentary Parliamentary Public Investment Committees (PIC) to respond to audit questions pertaining the 2018/2019 fiscal year.
The KUCCPS CEO made it clear that the public universities in the country and its constituent universities have a capacity totalling to 194,000. Therefore, this implies that all the qualified 2022 KCSE Candidates will be placed and still a capacity of about 19,035 will be unutilized.
Private Universities Pain
Private universities should now be worried is the motion sails through as the 29,449 slots reserved by the KUCCPS for them will be shared among public universities.
This move will save the government billions of shillings that will be diverted to save public universities facing financial crisis.
“KUCCPS have confirmed that we have more capacity than what is needed and we have agreed with KUCCPS that public universities have the capacity to accommodate all students,” the committee’s chairperson wanami Wamboka Said.
Wamboka stated that private university funding has been a thorny issue and the parliamentarians will do all that is within their capacity to put this matter to a rest once and for all.
“We are moving very heavily next week through parliament and through other legal means we have as a committee to ensure we stop funding,” he stated.
The PIC chair has mentioned that funding private universities has contributed greatly to the financial sufferings experienced in public universities across the country adding that this move will turn the situation around in public institutions.
“They have been having challenges because we have been funding Private Universities and therefore taking funds meant for public institutions away from them, thus why they don’t have money, but if we fund them, they will have the capacity,” he stated.
Wamboka stated that some individuals changed the university Act clause mischievously that gave a leeway for the government to fund private universities.
“We are aware they are trying to look for the CS and the head of state to revert this. They will run but they will not hide,” said Wamboka.
MPs also mentioned that its extremely difficult to track learners’progress in private universities as majority of them drop out due to high school fees charged.
Mercy Wahome has urged the government to increase the capitation given to universities citing a high and rising number of students joining the university.
2022 KCSE Candidates Won’t Be placed In Private Universities
