New agency to take up varsity admissions

By Benjamin Muindi. The Joint Admissions Board has been disbanded in a new law awaiting presidential assent. (Editorial: Plan to do away with JAB appears unwise).
It will be replaced by the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service, according to the Universities Bill (2012) that was passed by Parliament last week.
But unlike Jab, which was mainly charged with the admission of government-sponsored students to the seven public universities and their constituents, the new body has been given an extended mandate and will admit students in private universities and colleges.
It will also admit students to public universities through the self-sponsored programme, usually referred to as the parallel degree programme. More...