After the Ministry of Education released the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results, Kenyan universities are staring at an increased number of students this September.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba revealed that the ministry will be maintaining the cut-off mark for universities at C+, meaning the number of students joining universities will increase by 46,000.
This represents a 3 per cent increase compared to the number of students who joined in 2023. "This means that the universities are going to have more students because we are going to retain the C+ grade as the cutoff for admission to universities," Ogamba stated on Friday.
With the qualifying grade being capped at C+, this means that the number of students who qualify to join public universities will rise from 200,000 in 2023 to 246,291 in 2024, leaving public universities to grapple with major challenges including funding and space.
