Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) Chief Executive Officer Agnes Wahome has revealed that bright Pangani girls student landed a diploma course at a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution due to her Course choice.
The unidentified student, who scored an A- in the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), said that she had been placed at the Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology to pursue a diploma course in Nutrition.
“The message notified me that I had been offered a place at the Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) to study Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics. I scored A- in last year’s KCSE, and I was expecting to be booked for the course I had selected,” she said.
However, her desire was to pursue a course in Dentistry, which was her first and second choice during the course selection exercise. She further selected a Medicine course and a Nursing course at the University of Nairobi.
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Responding to the unfortunate occurrence, Wahome said that the student was placed in a TVET institution as the choice of the universities she wished to pursue the courses in demanded higher grades.
“The student who made the choice to do Dentistry with an A-, unfortunately, we have less than 50 capacities for the course. Students who got dentistry had straight As with a cluster weight of 43 yet this student had 40,”
“Clearly, with the choice of dentistry in two institutions, Medicine as her third choice, and Nursing at UoN as her fourth choice, there was no way she could have made it in all these. Her next choices were in Diploma. She had a first choice in Nutrition at Kiambu Institute, so it automatically takes you there.” Explained Wahome.
The KUCCPS boss further explained that KUCCPS gives priority to the first choices made by students. If a person misses that, the system then goes to the second choice, then and finally, the fourth consequently.
She advised the student to take advantage of the third revision to select the course of her choice. The portal will be reopened in a week’s time.
