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Digital learning programmes in Kikuyu sub county, Kiambu are running smoothly all primary schools received the gadgets.
Kikuyu sub county education officer Rosa Kamau said only four schools out of 31 primary schools are yet to receive the learning digital devices, and plans were underway to issue the four schools with the tablets soon.
Rosa, who was presenting a report on progress on digital learning programme Friday during the sub county heads of department meeting noted that teachers and pupils were excited using the gargets.
“Most of the pupils do everything on their own by following the instruction given to them by their teachers” Rosa told the meeting, adding that the digital learning which kicked off January this year has also eased work done by teachers.
The education officer noted that digital learning package which was issued to schools included a projector and an ICT teacher in each primary school has been trained on digital presentation of the curriculum in class one.
“All public primary schools have been supplied with electricity, the power being used by the learning digital gargets,” she said.
Rosa reported that no cases of theft of the digital learning gargets had been reported in the area, and where breakdown of the gargets occurred, the affected schools have been assisted by technical team from Kenyatta University, who have been given maintenance work of the gargets by the government.
The sub county education boss further told the meeting that her office has received 1.3 million shillings from national government for Infrastructure grants for selected nine public secondary schools in the sub county.
“Chairperson and secretary of the schools’ Board of Management [BOM] are currently attending a sensitization workshop, organized by Ministry of Education at Musa Gitau Girls in the sub county, and are being trained on managing and utilizing the infrastructure grants” Rosa said.
The grants will be released to the schools next week after the ongoing training. The nine out of 17 public schools in the sub county were picked for the grants last year in an exercise carried by a team nominated to carry out the exercise.
“We had been given a slot of only nine schools and the nine were picked after they were found most needy for the grant,” said the sub county deputy county commissioner Paul Famba, who chaired the meeting held in his office.
Famba urged the BOM committees to ensure the funds were used wisely and for intended purpose.