KUCCPS: How and Why KUCCPS lowered cut-off points for KCSE Candidates in 2022-2023 Placement/ admissions
KUCCPS News Today: The 2022-2023 cut 0ff points for bachelor of education science, agricultural courses, fashion and design face a major paradigm shift after KUCCPS decided to alter subject combinations-cluster points. For instance, Kiswahili will be used as a substitute for English when determining the cluster points for Bachelor of Education science students. Mathematics will also be substituted with other subjects so that the mandatory requirement of Mathematics in Bachelor of Education courses will be dropped.
Government Lowers and Relaxes Cluster Point Requirements for Some Courses in 2022-2023
Thousands of students seeking to join universities and colleges this have a reason to smile after the government through KUCCPS lowered the minimum qualifications for some courses offered in various universities across the country.
Learners who will be joining university this year will be required to pick alternative subjects to meet minimum requirements for some degree courses.
Due to reforms and developments in the education sector and demands from the job market, the government has introduced new courses to cater for dynamics in the job market.
The greatest beneficiaries of the process are students wishing to pursue bachelors degree courses in education, agriculture, fashion and design among others.
The reviews will see the minimum grade for mathematics, biology and other subjects requirements in some courses lowered or substituted with other subjects.
KUCCPS Chief Executive Officer Mercy Wahome said the criteria was reached to recognise areas such as agriculture and education where many students are disadvantaged by the minimum subject requirements to enrol in universities.
The new guidelines will take effect in the upcoming university and college placement for KCSE students who will sit for the national examinations in March this year.
In the new guidelines, Wahome also said that home science will be recognised as one of the subjects for the students seeking to pursue degree courses in fashion and design which has not been the case ,previously.
Further, she said that in the new changes Kiswahili will be accepted as an alternative subject for English for students wishing to take a degree in education science. For students seeking to pursue a bachelor’s degree in education arts mathematics will not be a minimum subject requirement.
On the other hand for students seeking to pursue degree courses in Agribusiness and Agricultural economics, the minimum requirements for biology have been lowered from C+ to C plain.
As the government eases qualification requirements for degree courses ,Universities and colleges are likely to face a strain on their resources due to high admissions levels.
KCSE 2021/2022 Candidates to report to Universities and Colleges by July following the Release of the 2022 KUCCPS Placement Results on this Date
Candidates who sat in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 2021 exams will start joining universities in June.
This was revealed by the University Education and Research Principal Secretary Simon Nabukwesi. He noted that the government will everything possible to ensure that the exams are marked in record time to facilitate university placements.
“We have already engaged the teachers who will be marking the exams and asked them to report to marking centres. The preparations are ongoing well and we urge the teachers to be just to our candidates,” said Nabukwesi.
Nabukwesi also added that the placement body The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) will start the process of placing students as soon as KCSE results are released.
Students who will qualify to join colleges and vocational institutes will do so in September.
He said: “The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) will start placing the candidates in the institutions immediately the KCSE results are released. There will be no waste of time. Candidates will be picked to join universities in early June. Those joining colleges and vocational institutes will do so in September.”