“There has been a policy change in programme from one-child — one laptop to the construction of computer laboratories for ICT integration,” Dr Kipsang told National Assembly’s Education Committee while presenting their budgetary proposals.
The Ministry of Education has now suspended issuance of tablets to class one pupils under the digital literacy programme, opting instead to build computer laboratories. Principal Secretary Bellio Kipsang has said that each of the 25,000 public primary schools will get one computer laboratory.
However, MPs questioned why the government was shifting to construction of the computer laboratories, but Dr Kipsang insisted that construction of the labs was part of phase two of the project.
The one-laptop-per-child idea in Jubilee’s Digital Learning Programme was meant, ostensibly, to entrench ICT in teaching and learning in primary schools.