Priorities upside down.

We do not need to give every std one pupil a Laptop. Better we have all primary schools and secondary schools with proper computer labs so that ALL pupils/students can access technology. It is easier to administer and provide the skills required.

have you seen the kind of equipment in our engineering classes at public universities? isn't it a joke that a young child will have been exposed to a laptop at an early age only to end up mastering his trade at university with obsolete technology.

[quote=Mainat]Livie- Is this highest priority even within the education sector? Something like 30% to 40% of schools have substandard accommodation. There is a 80,000 teacher shortage. You can hire something like 42,000 new teachers paying each 40k with that Ksh200bn. Most teachers have basic computing knowledge. More so those teaching lower primary years. Is it fair to only give the laptops to new kids (return won't been seen for another 18 years unlike Kibaki's free primary whose returns were seen within 4 years). What about equipping schools with better science (agriculture) laboratories so we can produce more scientists with solutions to some of our perennial problems? What about books?

I appreciate you are very attached to the new pres (was that you featured on KTN photographers by the way?), but jameni...


@Maina,
1) I was not the one featured on KTN.
2) In 2014 the government will only spend about shs 5 billion maximum on this project and not shs 200 Billion as indicated in that article. The article is just alarmist. Do your math.

That does not mean that other activities like hiring of teachers will not take place. There should be a budget for that too.

The main thing for this project is to ensure that the content in the laptops is well done and updated..... and government will save on new books every year.