When a diploma can be better for you than a degree

Students during a past graduation ceremony. [File, Standard]

Recently, I convinced a 2024 KCSE candidate who passed well enough to gain university admission to consider a diploma course. I pray and hope the advice works for her good because if it doesn't, she will blame me.

But this is someone who had developed a passion for nursing and even retook her exams just to see if she could prop up the grades well enough to qualify for a diploma in nursing. She overdid herself and got grades better than she had anticipated, thus bringing her into this confusion.