Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) has extended a full waiver on penalties for student loan repayment, providing relief to up to 75,000 students. The waiver, dubbed 'KamilishaMalipoyaHelb'...

...y Ouma Wanzala, more by this author here. The Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) in Kenya is taking a tough stance against student loan defaulters. With outstanding loans totaling Ksh50 bil...

The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has announced plans to disclose the identities and photographs of 85,000 student loan defaulters who owe Ksh50 billion, citing financial constraints t...

...es the absence of youth-centric historical narratives, even as students of the 1960s and 1970s—many of whom died or gained power through their idealism—remain uncelebrated in national discou...

...ch as proposing police collaboration with the Higher Education Loans Board to track 74,000 student loan defaulters in 2019. The Teachers Service Commission later rejected her plan to lower e...

...abinet Secretary Amina Mohammed proposed using police to track student loan defaulters, a move that ignited widespread debate about the balance between fiscal responsibility and social equit...

...n. Tim Wanyonyi has criticized government plans to criminalize student loan defaulters, arguing that the approach ignores systemic employment challenges facing graduates. The Education CS's...