- By Maurice Alal,API Kenya
PARENTS from Nyanza Region have called the government to equip teachers with the Information and Communication Technology skills in readiness for the laptops that are yet to arrive in the country by November this year.
http://www.africanpress.me/ – Nyanza Parents Association chairman Mr. Jackson Ogweno
Nyanza Parents Association chairman Mr. Jackson Ogweno said the laptops will only be effective if teachers have the necessary skills to train the pupils joining class one.
This follows the promise by the Jubilee government that all pupils joining class one shall be given a laptop for their studies. Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof. George Godia recently said that laptops will be brought in phases as from November 2013.
While addressing the press in his Kisumu office Ogweno said it is shocking that about 80% of teachers are computer illiterate and called for immediate action by the government to implement the project fully.
He argued that despite the past education skills in most schools laboratory the move by the government to equip class one pupils will transform the education through E-learning.
Ogweno commended President Uhuru Kenyatta for introduction of laptop project in schools saying this will lead to massive development in the education sector.
However, he stated that this now call for additional employment of teachers to meet the current demands in schools across the country.
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