[kictanet] Govt: Children will not take laptops home

[Kivuva]

As a community, lets advocate for the labs. There is no reason why a class
2 student should spend 7years in school without access to a terminal while
a class 1 has 8 years of laptop access. Is common sense that scarce?
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On 12 August 2013 14:01, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:

> The more they should just build LAB with terminal and let all children
> use the computers. It doesn't make sense to limit them to class 1.
>
> "Each device would cost Sh15,000 meaning the government could spend at
> least Sh15 billion in the first phase". From other news I've seen
> before, the govt (or their mouthpieces) did say these devices would
> cost KES 8,500 or thereabouts.
>
> From https://twitter.com/OleItumbi/status/346704000147664896, I can
> see there is a plan to build Labs, and it was in the budget.
>
> However, my question is still on the laptop. What is the _actual_ cost
> for a single unit?
>
>
>
> On 12 August 2013 13:21, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > The government now says schoolchildren would not be allowed to walk home
> > with laptops once they start using them from next year.
> >
> > Ministry of Education officials Monday told a stakeholders’ forum in
> Nairobi
> > that lessons from other countries indicate there would be many cases of
> lost
> > gadgets if school children are allowed to go home with them.
> >
> > http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1944834/-/vlrgegz/-/index.html
> >
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