Nairobi, Kenya: The Education ministry listed curriculum review, ICT integration, Tivet and university education and its efforts in keeping the girl child in school as some of its key achievements for the last one year.

Education PS Dr Bellio Kipsang said the Government has made tremendous efforts in integrating Information and Communication Technology in schools. However, it continues to face challenges in rolling out the Standard One laptop programme. He said ICT integration is at the heart of his ministry’s targets and said the laptop project would be rolled out once the court verdict is out.

Dr Kipsang, however, said moving forward, the ministry has developed a concept paper that would see the gadgets assembled locally to guarantee availability in addition to creating jobs.

He said computer laboratories have been constructed in some 3,500 secondary schools and noted that the targeted number of centres stands at 7,000 schools.

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Kipsang said the ministry bought ICT equipment worth Sh350 million and distributed it to 200 schools. “Some 1,440 secondary schools received grants to purchase laboratory equipment worth Sh200 million,” he said. In addition to this, the PS said some Sh5.4 billion has been injected to support university education of some 150,000 students in public universities.

The PS said another Sh1 billion has been factored in for improvement of primary schools’ infrastructure and noted that a similar amount has been set aside for the school feeding programme. He said the curriculum review is also underway.

On girl-child education, he said 500,000 girls have benefited from the Government’s Sh200 million sanitary towels project. He also said the ministry has requested for a sanitary towels’ budgetary allocation.

And the ministry is also putting more effort in revamping the Technical, Industrial, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (Tivet) institutions to increase access and quality.

?Reporting by Felix Olick, Augustine Oduor, Ally Jamah