The Joint admissions board- JAB, will be disbanded, as the
Ministry of education has sought kshs.100 million to carry out reforms in the
admissions body. Currently, JAB is responsible for admissions to all the country’s
public universities and university colleges. JAB will now be replaced by the
Kenya Universities Admissions and Placement board, which will also incorporate
private universities, and admission of students through the self sponsored
program, more commonly known as parallel degree program.
JAB had come under criticism for admitting students to
courses they had not selected in the first place. This year, the admissions
body changed the admission criteria, and incorporated a student’s overall mark,
in addition to the weighted cluster points. This means that if two students
both get As in all
subjects, but one has a higher average mark than the other, the one with the higher mark will be given preference. This is possibly a move to curb against grade inflation that has seen many more students get grade As, making admission to competitive courses such as Medicine, Law, and engineering particularly tricky.
subjects, but one has a higher average mark than the other, the one with the higher mark will be given preference. This is possibly a move to curb against grade inflation that has seen many more students get grade As, making admission to competitive courses such as Medicine, Law, and engineering particularly tricky.
In the 2012 KCSE class, the cut off point for admission to a
public university regular course was 61 points (Grade B) for male students, and
59 points (Grade B-), for female students. Students from marginalized areas,
and those with disabilities will be admitted to any course of their choice, so
long as they get at least a C+. Moi
University admitted the
highest number of students for the 2012 class.
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