By Vostine Ratemo
Parents, students and higher education stakeholders have raised concern over delays in opening of the Kenya Universities and Collages Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) portal for registration of 2022 KCSE candidates with fears that the delay might impact the students negatively.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu had directed KUCCPS to hasten the placement process during the release of the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations results late last year.
A number of reasons which are likely to be causing delay in placement of approximately 880,000 candidates include; Recommendation by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) to raise university fees from Ksh 16,000 up to Ksh 52,000, speculations that KUCCPS through the CUE may want to raise university minimum KCSE entry cut-off points.
Other reasons could be availability of funding to sponsor the 2022 KCSE candidates in both public and private institutions and that KUCCPS is yet to fully upload all the 2022 KCSE results from KNEC database to the KUCCPS database.
