A TOTAL of 16,646 students have been selected to join 221 colleges offering various health and allied sciences programmes countrywide for the 2024/25 academic year.
Dr Marcelina Baitilwake, director of admissions, examinations and certification at the National Council for Technical and Vocational Education Training (NACTVET) unveiled this on Thursday when speaking to journalists in Dar es Salaam.
Dr Marcelina said that among the selected students, 8,821 are female and 7,825 were male, noting: “This is the result of the first round of selections for those who applied to join the Health and Allied Sciences programmes for the academic year 2024/2025.”
She said a total of 24,629 applicants submitted their applications through the Common Admission System (CAS) and 23,503 applicants completed their applications by choosing the colleges/programmes they selected.
According to her, 21,661 applicants had qualifications in the programmes they applied for and 1,842 applicants did not have qualifications in the programmes they applied for.
She advised qualified applicants who were not selected due to competition in the programmes and colleges they applied to join the programmes and colleges that have a chance in the second phase window through the Common Admission System (CAS).
She said the window for the second phase has been officially opened today (Thursday) and will continue to be open until 10/08/2024, where the s results will be released.
Twaha Twaha, NACTVET examination and certification manager said that 221 colleges that offer health programmes have participated in the admission process through a common admission system.
He said that the colleges that offer a total of 13 health programmes were involved in the admission adding that those who were not selected have lacked various required criteria.
“The applicant for any programme at the college before applying must be satisfied whether he/she has the required qualifications for that programme and those qualifications are in the student admission guidebook and available on our website,” he said.
He asked students who want to study various programmes to look for the guide and check if they qualify instead of applying directly without having complete information.
"Using the common admission system brings openness in application because the student can see the chances, the competition and how many students have already applied and after we release the results the student can see why he was not selected," he said.
When a student enters the system to apply to another college that has a chance and they don’t pay money anymore,” he said.
He said that the common admission system has been very beneficial as it has been reducing the costs for applicants to apply for a chance in colleges.
“This system reduces admission and travel costs students who applies for admission because there are colleges that do not have systems to enable students to be admitted online,” said Twaha.
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