KUCCPS, HELB, KNEC and TSC services
University and college placement, HELB loans and repayment, KNEC results and certificates, and TSC registration. Answers come from each body's own pages.
Most asked
- Apply for a first-time HELB university loan and scholarship
- Check KCSE, KJSEA and KPSEA results
- Apply for university or college placement on KUCCPS (including revision of choices)
- Check your HELB loan status, disbursement and statement
- Repay your HELB loan and get a clearance certificate
- Appeal a Council of Legal Education decision at the Legal Education Appeals Tribunal
- Appeal a County Education Board decision at the Education Appeals Tribunal
- Appeal your HEF funding band or ask for more funding
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- Appeal a Council of Legal Education decision at the Legal Education Appeals Tribunal
- Appeal a County Education Board decision at the Education Appeals Tribunal
- Appeal your HEF funding band or ask for more funding
- Apply for a county (ward) education bursary
- Apply for a course at a NITA training centre
- Apply for a course at Bandari Maritime Academy
- Apply for a course at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC)
- Apply for a first-time HELB university loan and scholarship
- Apply for a HELB Jielimishe loan (for employed students)
- Apply for a HELB loan for TVET, diploma or certificate studies
- Apply for a HELB second and subsequent loan (continuing students)
- Apply for a Kenya School of Government (KSG) course
- Apply for a National Research Fund (NRF) research grant
- Apply for a TVET diploma, certificate or artisan course on KUCCPS
- Apply for a UNESCO fellowship or scholarship through KNATCOM
- Apply for accreditation of a university academic programme
- Apply for an NG-CDF (constituency) bursary for school, college or university fees
- Apply for courses at the Dairy Training Institute (DTI) Naivasha
- Apply for deployment from primary to junior school (TSC)
- Apply for KASNEB exemptions based on your degree or diploma
- Apply for NCPWD education assistance or a scholarship for students with disabilities
- Apply for the Diploma in Law (Paralegal Studies) at Kenya School of Law
- Apply for the Elimu Scholarship (government senior school scholarship for needy learners)
- Apply for the KPC Foundation INUKA scholarship (students with disabilities)
- Apply for the Presidential Secondary School Bursary (PSSB) for orphans and vulnerable learners
- Apply for university or college placement on KUCCPS (including revision of choices)
- Apply to establish a university (Letter of Interim Authority and Charter)
- Apply to Kenya Forestry College (Londiani) or book its conference facility
- Apply to Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC)
- Apply to Kenya Utalii College (hospitality and tourism courses)
- Apply to teach NEMA's EIA/EA training curriculum (training institutions)
- Apply to the Advocates Training Programme (ATP) at Kenya School of Law: requirements and fees
- Apply to the East African School of Aviation (EASA)
- Apply to the Kenya Institute of Highways and Building Technology (KIHBT)
- Apply to the Kenya Water Institute (KEWI)
- Apply to the National Defence University-Kenya (NDU-K)
- Apply to the Railway Training Institute (RTI)
- Apply to TVET CDACC to develop a competency-based curriculum
- Are schools run by the county or the national government?
- Book a KCAA aviation licensing exam
- Book a school or public visit to a KMD weather station
- Book a school visit to a KURA traffic safety park
- Book leadership or team-building training at KESAL
- Bridging to study medicine, dentistry or community oral health (KMPDC rules)
- Buy Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB) books and e-books
- Buy official KNEC past papers and publications (KNEC Bookshop)
- Can a school expel a pregnant girl or refuse a young mother?
- Can a school expel my child or make them repeat a class?
- Can a school refuse to admit a learner with a disability?
- Can a school refuse to admit my child?
- Can a school withhold your certificate over unpaid fees?
- Can a teacher be deregistered for abusing a learner?
- Can a teacher challenge a TSC disciplinary decision?
- Can I appeal a TVETA decision?
- Check if a law school or law degree is licensed (Council of Legal Education)
- Check if a qualification or awarding institution is registered (National Qualifications Database)
- Check if a TVET college is accredited and licensed by TVETA
- Check if a university or degree programme is accredited by CUE
- Check KCSE, KJSEA and KPSEA results
- Check the list of KICD-approved CBC textbooks (Orange Book)
- Check your HELB loan status, disbursement and statement
- Check your KUCCPS cluster points, course requirements and cut-off points
- Co-operative University of Kenya (CUK): fees, hostels, joining and graduation
- Collect your KCSE or KCPE certificate
- Complain about a public school: refused admission or illegal fees
- Complain or give feedback to KNEC (Sema Nasi)
- Complain to the Commission for University Education (CUE)
- Contact HEF (HELB and Universities Fund) customer care
- Contact the Teachers Service Commission (TSC)
- Correct your name or bio-data on a KNEC certificate
- Download or verify a KNEC e-certificate (digital KCSE/KCPE certificate)
- Find a KMA-approved maritime training school
- Find and apply for government-advertised scholarships (local and abroad)
- Find your child's KNEC assessment number and check registration (CBA portal)
- Get a flight school or aviation training organisation approved (ATO), or an aviation security course
- Get a foreign qualification aligned (equated) by KNQA
- Get a foreign university degree recognised by CUE
- Get a HELB compliance or clearance certificate
- Get a Kenya Utalii College certificate authenticated
- Get a medical or dental training programme approved by KMPDC (institutions)
- Get a nursing or midwifery training programme approved or accredited by NCK
- Get a nutrition training institution or CPD provider accredited by KNDI
- Get a penalty waiver on a defaulted HELB loan
- Get a physiotherapy training programme, internship centre or CPD provider approved (PCK)
- Get a refund of a HELB loan overpayment
- Get a research licence (research permit) from NACOSTI
- Get a research permit for the Kenya National Archives
- Get a special needs (functional) assessment and school placement advice for a learner with disabilities
- Get a training institution accredited by KASNEB
- Get a TVET certificate or diploma recognised and equated by TVETA
- Get a wildlife research permit or affiliation from WRTI
- Get accredited by COC as a CPD provider or clinical medicine training institution
- Get accredited by TVET CDACC as an assessor, verifier or assessment centre
- Get admitted to the Kenya Academy of Sports
- Get ethics approval for a research study from KEMRI (SERU)
- Get foreign school results equated by KNEC (e.g. IGCSE to KCSE)
- Get indexed and sit KNDI licensing or upgrade exams
- Get indexed with COC as a clinical medicine student
- Get indexed with NCK as a nursing or midwifery student
- Get KNEC to confirm someone's exam results (statement of results)
- Get skills you learnt on the job certified (Recognition of Prior Learning)
- Get the CBC curriculum designs for a grade (KICD)
- Get the official KCSE, KJSEA and KPSEA exam timetable
- Get your child a learner UPI number on NEMIS/KEMIS (or fix their record)
- Grade 10 senior school selection and placement (CBC)
- Grade 7 (Junior School) placement under CBE
- HELB postgraduate scholarships and loans (Masters and PhD)
- Industrial attachment through NITA, and the training levy for employers
- Is caning allowed? The law on corporal punishment of children
- Is holiday tuition legal?
- Is it an offence not to take your child to school?
- Is pre-primary (PP1, PP2) education free?
- Join CEMASTEA in-service and online training for maths and science teachers
- KNEC LMS and training for examiners and item writers
- Learn Kenya Sign Language (NCPWD KSL training)
- License a student recruitment agency (for foreign and local universities)
- Meet ICPAK CPD requirements and book CPD events
- Minimum grades to study law in Kenya (LLB, diploma, certificate)
- My child is being bullied at school: what does the law say?
- My child's KCSE results were cancelled. Can we appeal?
- Pay entry fees for a national museum or heritage site
- Pay public university fees through eCitizen
- Raise a query or complaint with KUCCPS
- Register a private school
- Register a qualification or awarding institution with KNQA
- Register a school or college as a KNEC examination centre
- Register and get licensed as a TVET trainer with TVETA
- Register and license a daycare (childcare centre) in Nairobi
- Register and license a TVET institution with TVETA
- Register as a KASNEB student and book exams (CPA, CS, CIFA and more)
- Register as a lab CPD provider or get a lab training institution approved
- Register as a pharmacy CPD provider or get a pharmacy course approved (PPB)
- Register as a teacher with TSC (get a TSC number)
- Register for KCSE as a private candidate or repeater
- Register for KNEC business and technical (TVET) exams: artisan, craft and diploma
- Register for KNEC teacher education exams (DPTE, DECTE, DSTE and others)
- Remit HELB loan deductions as an employer
- Repay your HELB loan and get a clearance certificate
- Replace a lost or damaged KCSE/KCPE certificate (KNEC certification letter)
- Report a fake certificate (Cheti Mwitu) to KNQA
- Request weather and climate data from KMD
- School fees and capitation in public secondary schools
- Sit IGCSE, A level (Edexcel) and other foreign exams through KNEC as a private candidate
- Sit the KCSE Qualifying Test (no KCPE certificate)
- Sit the physiotherapy pre-registration exam and get student indexing (PCK)
- Study special needs education or get assistive devices at KISE
- Submit learning materials to KICD for evaluation and approval
- Train as a coach, referee or sports administrator (Kenya Academy of Sports)
- Train as a TVET trainer at the Kenya School of TVET (KSTVET)
- Train in footwear and leather goods making at TPCSI (Kenya Leather Development Council)
- Train on a course at an NYS institute
- Transfer a learner to another school (NEMIS/KEMIS)
- Transfer to another university or college through KUCCPS (inter-institution transfer)
- Transfer your course credits to another institution (KCATS)
- TSC Code of Conduct and Ethics for teachers (including dress code)
- TSC entry and exit returns (teacher reporting to or leaving a school)
- TVET CDACC competency-based assessment and certificates
- Understand KJSEA (Grade 9) grading and performance levels
- Understand the KNEC grading system (KCSE mean grade and points)
- Upload school-based assessment (SBA) scores and projects on the KNEC CBA portal
- Use braille, large-print and audio library services (KNLS)
- Use free digital lessons on the Kenya Education Cloud
- Use the national library and the Vtabu virtual library (KNLS)
- Verify a KASNEB certificate or get a confirmation of results
- Visit the Kenya National Archives and Murumbi Gallery
- Visit the Nairobi Railway Museum
- What a head teacher must do when a child stops coming to school
- What does the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) do, and who runs it?
- What is the punishment for exam cheating or leaking exam papers?