Piece by: MAUREEN KINYANJUI

09 February 2024

• The application is open for placement for students seeking to join Universities, Tvet institutions, Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) and Open University of Kenya ( OUK).

•Application should be done via the student’s portal student.kuccps.net.

The long wait is over as the government has finally opened the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS).

In a notice on Thursday, KUCCPS announced that application should be done via the student’s portal student.kuccps.net

"The wait is over! The @KUCCPS_Official portal is now open! It's time to apply for your preferred course in an institution of your choice. Keep it here for updates," read the notice.

The application is open for placement for students seeking to join Universities, Tvet institutions, Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) and Open University of Kenya ( OUK).

Those targetted include the KCSE class of 2023 and Form 4 leavers ( KCSE 2000 to 2022)

At least 903, 260 candidates sat for the papers which began on October 23, 2023 and ended on November 2023.

According to data from the ministry, 899,453 candidates sat for the 2023 KCSE of which 450,554 were male, while 448,899 were females.

The results were released on January 8, 2024, in Eldoret.

They showed that although subcounty secondary schools hosted 66 per cent of examination centres in 2023, they produced only seven A students in the entire country.

National schools, comprising less than one per cent of KCSE exam centres, produced 899 A students. Extra-county schools had 172 As, while county schools had 5 A students.