Key agencies to be merged in education sector shake-up

Higher Education PS Beatrice Inyangala and HELB CEO Geoffrey Monari before the Senate's Education Committee at Bunge Towers, Parliament,Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Major changes are in the offing that could see the merger of key student financing and placement bodies.

Proposals fronted by the Cabinet are seeking to have the Higher Education Loans Board, the Universities Fund Board, the TVET Funding Board and the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service consolidated into a single agency.