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New Open University of Kenya to offer IT-related courses

President Willaim Ruto awards charter to Open University of Kenya leadership during official unveiling of Kenya's first virtual university in Konza technopolis, Machakos County on Thursday, August 3. [Stephen Nzioka, Standard]

The 173,000 candidates who sat the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination and were eligible to join the university have a new lifeline as they can now choose to pursue IT-related degree programmes from the newly launched the Open University of Kenya.

President William Ruto announced that the cost of the six pioneer programmes at the new university will cost half the fees charged in other public universities.

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