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    "content": "with the issue of double registration for some students who are keying in their identity cards twice. On clarifying how students under 18 years can access funding without official identification documents, students without national identity cards will be required to apply for scholarships and loans with their KCSE index numbers and birth certificates. Once a student is categorized under the new funding model, a scholarship will be awarded and sent to the university or college. At the same time, the HELB loan will be set aside to finance them as soon as they submit their national identity cards. Universities and colleges have been advised accordingly on the arrangement and are expected to admit students. From my engagement with the Cabinet Secretary, what that means is that students who are under 18 years old will be granted full scholarships in the first year. Subsequently, once they acquire their identity cards because some are turning 18 years old next year and some later this year, they will be given HELB loans to fund subsequent years as they review the scholarship bit, depending on their ability. They have already issued a memo to all our vice- chancellors to ensure no student misses admission on account of being under 18 years. The difficulty with this is that they cannot get into contractual agreements with minors. Our laws, unless we review them state that anyone under 18 years is a minor. Therefore, they cannot get into a contractual agreement for a loan with HELB. The HELB has committed to awarding them loans upon attainment of 18 years and consequently reduce their scholarship bit depending on their ability since the new funding model is student-centred, as they put it. Provision of the loan is a contractual arrangement between HELB and the student. Since the law does not allow contracts with minors, loans for those without identity cards will not be disbursed until identity cards are provided. The students falling under this category are approximately 1,000. From experience, these students receive their identity cards within their first year of study. On clear and easily understood guidelines differentiating the processes for applying for HELB funds and scholarships, the application process is the same and made on the same portal through the website"
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