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KUCCPS Issues New Directives To Universities On Fees

BY Getrude Mathayo · May 24, 2023 12:05 pm

The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) CEO Dr. Mercy Wahome stated that universities will not be allowed to revise fees for courses until a student completes four academic years.

Speaking during a media sensitization workshop on students’ placement process and the new higher education funding model KUCCPS CEO stated that the move would ensure the effectiveness of the new funding model.

Wahome claims that the universities will only be permitted to modify tuition costs for the incoming batch after consultations. The CEO also pointed out that students will continue to pay the same amount for the subsequent four years even if the cost of their study decreases.

However, the institutions are free to change their fees for each intake, therefore the price of the courses may change for each cohort.

“We are funding the students. We kept saying that we need to fund the student and not the university because when we fund the university, they will even compromise on the quality,” she stated.

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Geoffrey Munari, the CEO of the University fund noted that the new model was also a solution to the falling quality of education and the ballooning debt burden.

“The quality of our education has been affected so we need to think. The debt the university was accruing was growing very fast,” he stated.

President William Ruto unveiled the new funding model on Wednesday, May 3 as a remedy to the debt crisis bedeviling public universities. He noted that under the new model, the government would increase university allocation in the 2023/24 financial year from Ksh54 billion to Ksh84.6 billion.

Further, Ruto explained that students would be divided into three categories including the Vulnerable, the Less Vulnerable, and the Able, and will receive funding according to the categories.

He noted that the new funding model would take effect in the next education year and all continuing government-sponsored students will be supported in line with the previous model.

“Universities and TVETS will no longer receive block funding in the form of capitation based on a differentiated unit cost. Funding to students shall combine scholarships, loans, and household contributions on a graduated scale,” Ruto stated.

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