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Full details on Maseno School; KCSE Performance, Location, History, Fees, Contacts, Portal Login, Postal Address, KNEC Code, Photos and Admissions

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Maseno High School is one of the oldest schools Kenya. It is a National school located in Kisumu County; Kisumu Rural Constituency of Nyanza Region. It is a boys’ only boarding secondary school situated next to Maseno University. The school was established in 1906 by the Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society as a school for the children of African chiefs. Maseno School offers a multitude of opportunities for all students, from the Arts, Academic and Athletic programs. The students have excelled in all three of the aforementioned arenas, winning Provincial and National level recognition as one of the best National high school in Kenya. Fees at this school is subsidized through the government’s Free Secondary Education, FSE, Programme.

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Maseno School Location and Contacts

  • School Name: Maseno School
    Physical Location: Kisumu-Busia Road
    Address: P.O. Box 120, Maseno
    City/Town: Kisumu
    County: Kisumu
    School Category: Public
    School Code: 39700001
    Phone Number: 0713-715956, 0738-934812
    Email: masenoschool@yahoo.com
    Website: http://www.masenoschool.sc.ke

Performance in Academics and KCSE Analysis

Maseno school has mantained a good run in results; posting impressive performances at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, exams. In 2018, for instance, the school attained a mean grade of an A- (minus) of  78.701 for the 237 candidates who sat for the exams; that year. In 2019 a total of 477 candidates.

Apart from academics, the school is renown for its successful exploits in sports and other Co-curricular activities. Most notably, Maseno school has been a power house in Rugby and basketball.

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Photo Gallery; Maseno School

 

Maseno School.
Maseno School.
Students at Maseno School.
Maseno School Basketball team
Learners at Maseno School
Former Principal, Otula.
Maseno School students celebrate at a past feat.

 

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KUCCPS students’ admission lists and letters news

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The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has completed the process of placing students into universities, colleges and TVETs for the the 2020/2021 academic year. Students can now receive their admission results and then admission letters. If you are not satisfied with the universities that they have been placed can apply for inter-institution transfer through the KUCCPS student portal.

For all KUCCPS related news (Admission lists, letters) visit; THE KUCCPS PORTAL

Following the 2019 KCSE examination, the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) provided results for 689,007 Kenyan citizen candidates for placement. An analysis of the results indicated that 125,463 were eligible for placement to degree programmes and 563,544 were eligible for placement to TVET courses at diploma, craft certificate and artisan certificate levels. Four thousand, eight hundred and twenty three (4,823) were registered as non-Kenyan citizens, hence were not eligible for Kenya Government sponsorship.

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The 2020/2021 placement cycle entailed four main activities, namely the, Update and Validation of Institutional and Programme Capacities, School/Centre Application, Revision of Choices and Application Processing.

Update and Validation of Institution/Programme Capacities

The Placement Service enabled the universities and colleges admitting Government-sponsored students to access the placement system through the Institution’s Portal and update the list of the programmes and capacities available for student placement. Thereafter, the Placement Service validated the programmes with the Commission for University Education (CUE) and the TVET Authority (TVETA) – the regulators – to ensure that the programmes and the institutions are duly accredited, and that the numbers provided for admission are within the limits allowed by the regulators.

During the 2020/2021 placement cycle, 145,129 degree and 276,163 TVET programme vacancies were provided for placement.

School/Centre Application

The School/Centre Application marked the beginning of the placement process. The Placement Service invited principals of secondary schools with registered KCSE examination candidates to collect, collate and submit the candidates’ course choices/preferences.

During the School Application, 2,228 of the 10,289 registered schools/examination centres submitted their candidates’ choices/preferences, which translates to 21.65%. The Placement Board is concerned about this low participation of schools at this important step of the placement process.

To address this concern, the Board recommends to the Ministry of Education to consider issuing a policy guideline to all schools, especially those with candidates eligible for placement to TVET institutions, to ensure that they submit the applications on behalf of their KCSE candidates for university and TVET placement.

Following the School/Centre Application and the release of the KCSE results, the revision of choices was conducted in two phases.

The First Revision of Choices

The First Revision, which opened from February to March, was meant to give the students an opportunity to make better informed choices given that they had their KCSE results. Therefore, at that point, they were in a position to consider how their performance compared to the requirements of their desired courses. In addition, having left the school environment and having been exposed to some of the careers of their interest, they could benefit from the exposure in making their career choices.

All the 2019 secondary school graduates were given an opportunity to make changes to their choices from the School Application or to submit their preferences if they had not. Eligible candidates from previous years were also enabled to apply for TVET programmes.

At the same time, the Placement Service rolled out nationwide application support
and guidance to applicants by deploying its officers to 34 learning institutions
designated as application/revision centres. In addition, applicants were offered  support in 11 Huduma Centres that host KUCCPS Service Desks. This was preceded by a public sensitisation campaign through the mainstream print media, online platforms and community radio stations.

Following the processing of applications after the First Revision of Choices, applicants who were unable to secure their choices due to competition in the programmes they preferred were invited for the Second Revision of Choices.

The Second Revision of Choices

The Second Revision of Choices took place in April. During the period, the Placement Service invited the applicants who did not secure a course after the First Revision of Choices, through the mass media, SMS and online platforms, to submit fresh lists of their preferred courses selected from programmes with unfilled capacities.

Despite the prevailing public restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Placement Service successfully presided over this exercise, taking advantage of digital communication technologies to offer support and guidance to the applicants remotely. Applicants who merited at this stage were successfully placed to courses of their choice.

Final Placement Application Processing

The final application processing and approvals were undertaken after the conclusion of the Second Revision of Choices. At this stage, the Placement Service ensured that all the eligible 2019 KCSE candidates who qualified for degree and TVET programmes and successfully submitted applications got university and college places on merit. Eligible applicants from previous KCSE years who qualified were also placed to TVET programmes. Affirmative Action was applied for applicants from marginalised regions, persons with disability and gender in accordance with the Placement Policy.

Final Observations

From the just-concluded student placement process, the following observations were made:

  •  Many secondary schools or KCSE examination centres fail to submit applications for courses on behalf of their candidates, yet this is a critical first step towards the envisaged 100% transition from secondary to higher education. A policy intervention, already alluded to, is necessary to address this.
  • Low uptake of TVET courses persists, despite infrastructural expansion and other investment in the institutions. TVET institutions declared 276,163 capacities for diploma, craft certificate and artisan certificate courses and 88,724 applicants were placed, translating to 32% of the capacity.
  • Applicants who were unable to get the courses of their choice in the institutions they preferred were placed in similar courses in alternative institutions and in programmes that did not attract at least a reasonable percentage of students. This secured Government sponsorship for 43,817 applicants who would have missed it otherwise.
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Detailed Procedure for admitting 2020 Form Ones through the NEMIS system: Ministry of Education

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The admission of the 2020 form ones in all private and public Secondary schools shall be, exclusively, done via the Education Ministry’s National Education Management Information System (NEMIS).

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Required Documents

Here is the complete list of items required for admitting a new student/ form one via the National Education Management Information System, NEMIS:
  1. The admission letter.
  2. The learner’s index number, in full.
  3. The Learner’s Birth Certificate.
  4. The learner’s Unique Personal Identifier, UPI.
  5. The learner’s Contact details: Home county, Home Sub- County, Postal address, E-mail address and Phone Number.
  6. Learner’s passport size photograph.
  7. Learner’s special needs; if any.
  8. Mother’s details: ID Number, Name, E-mail and mobile number.
  9. Father’s Details: ID Number, Name, E-mail and mobile number.
  10. Guardian’s Details: ID Number, Name, E-mail and mobile number.

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The Admission process

Students will present their letters upon arrival for admission. The schools will then verify the existence of their names in the system. The form ones who report to Secondary schools, as placed by the Ministry, will undergo the following admission process:
  1. The form one reports to the school where placed by the NEMIS system and presents the admission letter that must be downloaded from the Education Ministry’s portal at http://www.education.go.ke/index.php/online-services/form-one-selection. (This is applicable to National, Extra County and County Schools)
  2. The admission letter is received by the principal or any other individual as may be delegated by the principal.
  3. The Principal or delegated individual will then log onto the NEMIS system by using a smartphone, tablet or computer that has been connected to the internet (Since the admission process can only be executed online). Log onto the NEMIS system by using the official Ministry’s links: http://nemis.education.go.ke/ or http://nemissystem.education.go.ke/
  4. Once logged in (by entering the User Name and Password which is at the disposal of the Principal), Click on the tab indicated as ‘LEARNER’.
  5. From the drop down list, select Admit/Capture request.
  6. On the new window, type in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, KCPE, index number on the search UPI/INDEX box and click on search.
  7. The NEMIS system will automatically load, and display, the student’s details showing that the learner is selected to join the school. In case the learner has not been selected to join the school, please advise him/ her to go to the school where the placement has been effected as shown on the NEMIS system or get help from the local Education office. If the student is selected to join the school, then click on ‘ADMIT’.
  8. Fill in the required information to successfully complete the admission process.
  9. Repeat steps 1 to 8, above, for all the 2020 form ones selected to join the school.
  10. You can confirm whether the learners have been captured correctly by Selecting ‘View my Learners’ from the ‘LEARNER’ tab

The ‘Learner’ Tab on NEMIS

The ‘LEARNER’ tab, on the NEMIS window, can also be used to carry out the following learner related operations:
  1. PENDING REGISTRATION: View a list of learners whose Registration is pending. These are learners whose details have not been entered as required i.e missing some information like their photographs.
  2. VIEW MY LEARNERS: A menu used to view the list of all learners whose details have been fully updated on the NEMIS system.
  3. LIST OF ADMISSION REQUESTS: Shows the list of admission requests as uploaded onto the NEMIS system for approval by the Ministry of Education’s field officers.
  4. LIST OF PROCESSED ADMISSION REQUESTS: To display the list of learners whose admission requests have been approved by the Ministry of Education’s Field officers.
  5. RECEIVE LEARNER: Used to admit a continuing learner; who has transferred from another school.
  6. RELEASE LEARNER: Used to transfer a learner to join another school after the transfer has been granted by the Education Ministry’s Field Officers.

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