New varsity admissions plan seeks to limit State funding for students

Education CS Ezekiel Machogu (right) and his PS Belio Kipsang look at admission documents at St. George's Girls' school in Nairobi on February 06,2023 where they had gone to inspect Form One admission process. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

It will no longer be automatic for students who score a grade of C+ and above to be sponsored by the government to pursue courses in universities and colleges.

All students will be required to make fresh applications requesting to be considered for government funding in a new proposed plan to address financial crisis in tertiary education.