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Higher Education PS Beatrice Inyangala has acknowledged that funding for 2025/26 remained at the same level as the previous financial year, despite the admission of the largest cohort in history. [File, Standard]
Public universities are set to share Sh4.2 billion in scholarship funds, amid the biggest test for President William Ruto’s new university funding model.
The latest disbursement will support more than 400,000 continuing undergraduate students under the Student-Centred Funding Model (SCFM), pushing total releases in the 2025/26 financial year to Sh18.4 billion. The funds will cater for tuition for students admitted in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
But amid the disbursement, the model is starting to face a strain in funding as it suffers from shortfall in funding.
