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Why all Class One pupils were never going to get free laptops

Class one pupil from Getembe Primary school in Kisii township smile joyfully after receiving a tablet on May 05,2016. The school has a population of fifty six pupils in class one  (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

For nearly four years, the Government has been struggling to integrate digital technology into early years of primary schooling.

Digital learning, it says, will improve an education system suffering from quality of teaching and inadequate learning resources.

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