Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has ordered the recall of all university admission letters just few months to the official admissions for the 2023/24 KCSE students.
According to reports the Ministry of Education reached the decision to recall all university admission letters after alleged anomalies in the fees students are required to pay to schools.
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The Ministry of Education has been accused of allegedly imposing an entire amount of school fees on students regardless of the categories under the new funding model that was proposed by the government.
Machogu issued new directive to all universities to ensure that the corrections are made on tje admission letters before students are re-issued with fresh admission letters by their respective universities.
This comes after parents and different education stakeholders raised alarm over the ammount students are required to pay. Admitting the errors, the ministry therefore directed Universities to recall all issued admission letters.
According to the new funding model introduced by the government in 2023, students facing hardships raising fees including orphans who were categorised as vulnerable were to be provided full fees and accommodation by the government.
However, in the error that was made by the Ministry, the three categories, the vulnerable, extremely needy, needy and less needy have been allocated same amount of fees this causing the confusion.
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For the corrections to be made, the vulnerable and extremely needy students would receive 100 per cent funding while the needy and less needy would get 93 per cent which in all cases will see a reduction of fees paid.