The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) Chief Executive Officer, Agnes Wahome, has revealed why students who qualify for degree courses are opting for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) courses.
Speaking on Tuesday, April 8, Wahome attributed the high demand for TVET courses to low enrolment requirements and the high demand in the labour market.
She noted that as of March this year, over 7,000 students who scored C+ and above in their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) had applied for TVET courses.
“As we speak, the students who we have already placed before we opened for university placement, 7,000 of those who had C+ and above, had already taken up TVET courses,” she stated.
In terms of discipline, the CEO had earlier disclosed that male students dominate science while female students dominate arts.
“We still have more male students taking up the science programmes, more female students are going for law and other art programmes, and looking at where we are as a country the number of those going for TVET courses is going up,” She said during the 2nd Biennial University Funding Conference that took place on 26th and 27th February 2025 in Naivasha.
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According to her, medicine courses are some of the most in-demand courses among students who qualify for universities.
“We have had more students going for the medical courses, those who qualify for universities. We have seen students with C + and above going for nursing, clinical medicine, teaching. Last week, we put out advertisements for Diploma in Law; again we saw that most of the students who applied were those with C + and above,” she stated.
On the other hand, the high-demand courses preferred by most students in TVETs are electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, hospitality and culinary arts, and automotive engineering.
Currently, there are over 400 institutions, including 70 universities, 90 KMTCs, 35 teacher training colleges and over 300 TVET institutions, which are all government institutions.
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