Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)

Helb must be more creative on funds

Reading Time: 2 minutes Education is a basic right. According to Benjamin Franklin, an investment in knowledge pays the best returns. These two statements […]

95,000 students to miss out on loans, says Helb

Reading Time: 2 minutes At least 95,000 university and college students will miss out on education loans owing to budgetary constraints. Worse still, lucky […]

How digitisation of student loans will transform lending

Reading Time: 3 minutes Educationists and beneficiaries of student loans have weighed in on the recently launched Higher Education Loans Board digital payment solution, […]

Students threaten protests over plan to slash Helb loan

Reading Time: < 1 minute Students from institutions of higher learning in Mount Kenya region yesterday threatened mass protests against the government’s move to increase […]

Varsity students’ trouble after Helb slashes loans

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) has been forced to scale down the average loan allocation for university students from […]

Why Ruto faces Herculean task in opposing BBI report

Reading Time: 4 minutes Emeka-Mayaka Gekara Deputy President  (DP) William Ruto is likely to face an uphill task when he launches campaigns against the […]

Helb rolls out plan to fund technical college students

Reading Time: < 1 minute Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) yesterday announced  the 2020/21  loan programmes for technical and vocational education. The loans will cover […]

Helb invites applications for 2020/21 student loans

Reading Time: < 1 minute Helb waived the Sh1,000 fee previously charged to non-loanees to acquire a compliance certificate, which came as a relief for job seekers.

Relief for jobseekers as HELB waives Sh1,000 certificate fee for non-beneficiaries

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has waived the Sh1,000 fee previously charged to non-beneficiaries to acquire a Compliance Certificate.  […]

Dashed dreams for Kakamega students as county takes back Shs 108m

Reading Time: 3 minutes Thousands of students in Kakamega county are likely to miss out on secondary school bursaries after county officials failed to […]