200 schools to get ICT kits annually
What you need to know:
- Prof Kaimenyi said the government was committed to making ICT a core part of the education system.
- Prof Kaimenyi said the laptop project for class one pupils was on course.
Two hundred schools will be provided with Information Communication Technology equipment annually, Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said.
Prof Kaimenyi said the government was committed to making ICT a core part of the education system.
“We at the ministry are saying it will not be business as usual,” the minister said at Karima Girls High School in Nyandarua County at the weekend where he launched an e-learning centre.
DISTANCE LEARNING
He said the e-learning centre at Karima High School would make education easily available through distance learning.
In public universities, he said, there was an average of one computer per 13 lecturers and one per 32 students. “We want to make it 1:1.”
Prof Kaimenyi said the laptop project for class one pupils was on course, adding that the government was waiting for a ruling in a case over procurement of the gadgets. “Once the court makes ruling on the matter, we shall revisit the issue.”
He said it was prudent to make pupils computer literate in the 21st century.
