By Dennis Kipkirui
Students selected by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) to
study various courses flocked to Maarifa Centre yesterday to apply and revise
their career courses in an attempt to beat the May 31st deadline. They
were enthusiastic to use the ICT facilities in the Centre to revise their
choices. They acknowledged that Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) had contributed
tremendously to their community since they would have traveled far access internet
service or worse still travel up to Nairobi to do the revision. They started
thronging to the Centre as early as 7am and by 10 am the officials in the Centre
were forced to design a mechanism of ensuring that the former high school
students were served quickly and satisfactorily to reduce the back log.
The Centre was a beehive of activities when the former
K.C.S.E students came in large numbers. A number of them had sought for
permission in different schools where they are serving as untrained teachers
employed by the Parents Teachers Association (PTA).
They received invaluable
information from the officers in the centre who were at hand to receive and
serve them. However, most of them found it
difficult to feed in the required information since the details they had were
conflicting with the one contained in the JAB database. Among the situations
witnessed include cases of the prospective university students providing the
birth certificate details asked for by the JAB website while in actual sense
their head teachers had not submitted them while registering for the K.C.S.E.
Others include those who came to revise their courses only to find that their
former schools did not submit their initial registration and had to start
again.
University applicants revise courses using online service at Maarifa Centre |
For those who could not complete the process because of
different challenges, officers in the centre assisted them in drafting and
sending e-mails to inquire where the problem was. The response received varied
from instant solution being provided to some being told to travel to the
University of Nairobi’s main campus to have their cases handled there.
Most of the applicants who spoke to Laikipia Rural Voices (LRV) journalist
applied business related courses while some found it comfortable to apply
teaching courses. For some, it was an uphill task comprehending what the
courses matching their subject clusters entailed. Lucky enough, they received
adequate information from the Maarifa Centre on the details of those courses.
They were optimistic that JAB will consider them for the
courses applied for and looked forward to joining the university to purse them.
However, JAB will have to consider their choices first and get back to them
after 31st of May. The feedback will range from admission on the
courses chosen or the need for some to revise their choices. The Centre closed
as late as 8pm after serving all of them.
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