Schools get computers to facilitate e-learning
Monday February 22 2021
Mr Issa Kararira, the Executive Director NHDA handing over computers to Hon Rosemary Sseninde. Right is Mr Joseph Luswata, the head teacher of Kitala SS. Photo | Eve Muganga
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According to the project coordinator Mr Hashim Kapere, providing ICT units to students will positively impact not only the students but also the entire communities.
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Ten government-aided secondary schools have received computers to promote e-learning during this Covid-19 period.
Embrace Relief, a United States NGO in partnership with Nile Humanitarian Development Agency and other partners donated 156 computers to 10 schools under the Accessible Computer Technology (ACT-US) project to improve the educational outcomes in regions of Uganda with limited access to the internet.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 26 2021
Ms Rosemary Sseninde, the State minister for Primary Education (standing), inspects some of the work that ICT teachers were handling at Turkish Light Academy in Kigo, Wakiso District on January 23, 2021. PHOTO/STEPHEN OTAGE
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We have been encouraging schools to embrace ICT and we know that some schools were given computers by the Uganda Communications Commission.
You visit a school and find the computers are intact. They have never been opened,” State minister for Primary Education Rosemary Sseninde.
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While officiating at a one day orientation workshop for 20 ICT teachers from 10 secondary schools across the country in Kigo, Wakiso District, on Saturday, State minister for Primary Education Rosemary Sseninde said: “We have been encouraging schools to embrace ICT and we know that some schools were given computers by the Uganda Communications Commission. You visit a school and find the computers are intact. They