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Universities suffer major blow as poor results kill parallel programme

Eileen Choge a former student of Moi Girls High Schoo Eldoret is congratulated by teachers at the school after she received her KCSE results. Eileen scored an A- (Minus) of 74 Points. 29-12-2016. [PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI/Standard]

Public universities have suffered a major blow after fewer candidates qualified to enroll for various courses thanks to strict rules by the Education ministry.

The announcement that only 88,929 candidates of those who sat this year's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam attained the university entry grade of C+ and above has dealt a natural death to the parallel programmes.

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