Thousands of students aspiring to join universities and colleges this year have a reason to smile after the government through KUCCPS lowered the minimum eligibility for certain courses offered in various universities across the country.
Learners joining the university this year will have to choose elective subjects to satisfy the minimum requirements for certain degree courses.
Due to the improvement and development in the education sector and the demands of the job market, the government has introduced new courses to meet the dynamics in the job market.
The biggest beneficiaries of this process are students aspiring to pursue undergraduate degree courses in education, agriculture, fashion and design.
The reviews will look at minimum grades for math, biology and other subject requirements in some courses or be substituted with other subjects.
KUCCPS Chief Executive Officer Mercy Wahom said the criteria were reached to recognize sectors such as agriculture and education, where many students are deprived of the minimum subject requirements to enroll in universities.
The new guidelines will be effective in the upcoming university and college placements for KCSE students who will be appearing for the national examinations in March this year.
In the new guidelines, Wahome also said that home science will be recognized as one of the subjects for students wishing to pursue degree courses in fashion and design, which was not the case earlier.
In addition, he said that in the new changes Kiswahili would be accepted as an optional subject of English for students wishing to pursue a degree in pedagogy.
Mathematics will not be the minimum subject requirement for students wishing to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education.
On the other hand, for students aspiring to pursue degree courses in agribusiness and agricultural economics, the minimum requirements for biology have been reduced from C+ to C plain.
