Cabinet waives ID requirement for students applying for university loans and scholarship
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Reprive for students applying for university loans and scholarship as Ruto cabinet waives ID requirement
Reprive for students applying for university loans and scholarship as Ruto cabinet waives ID requirement.
The government has granted relief to students who are enrolling in colleges but have not reached the age of 18 to obtain national identification cards.
This comes after the Cabinet on Tuesday waived the necessity for a national ID as a requirement to qualify for State finance in line with the new higher education financing model following a meeting presided over by President William Ruto at the Kakamega State Lodge.
Thousands of students had expressed concern before the Cabinet’s decision that they may be denied access to the higher education fund because they lacked identification cards.
The students, who have yet to receive their IDs, lamented that the fund’s application process requires them to input their ID numbers on the portal when registering.
The Cabinet similarly directed the Ministry of Education and relevant stakeholders to fast-track access to scholarships for all eligible students in line with the State’s new funding model.
In a bid to enhance access to higher education, the Cabinet further approved the upgrading of thirteen Technical and Vocational Colleges to National Polytechnic status.
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“The action by Cabinet is pursuant to the principles set out in Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2005: A Framework for Education, Training and Research; which establishes a pathway for upward mobility of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) graduates,” a despatch from the Cabinet seen by Citizen Digital reads in part.
“The framework also requires the establishment of at least one National Polytechnic in each County and a TVET institution in each constituency.”
The Cabinet similarly approved four Bills in a bid to accelerate Kenya’s attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
The Bills are; the Primary Health Care Bill, 2023, the Digital Health Bill, 2023, the Facility Improvement Financing Bill, 2023 and the Social Health Insurance Bill, 2023.
“These Bills usher in a paradigm in the legal and institutional framework for healthcare in Kenya by repealing the current National Health Insurance Fund and establishing in its place the following funds: Primary Healthcare Fund; Social Health Insurance Fund; and Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund,” said the Cabinet.
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