| Laptops in Africa\'s classrooms; saviour or a waste of good money? |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| AFRICA’S tech boom has made many governments on the continent eager to incorporate e-learning into their education policies, to mixed success. Rwanda’s One Laptop per Child project has seen over 203,000 laptops distributed to primary school pupils, making it the third largest deployment of laptops to schools globally after Peru and Uruguay. But laptop projects have stalled in other countries, as controversies over corruption and political opportunism, and as to whether laptops are a good educational investment in the first place, throw a spanner in the works. In Kenya, for example, one of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s incoming election pledges was to supply 1.2 million laptops to first year primary pupils. It was to be a $600 million project, with a $100 price tag per laptop. |
| Source: Mail & Guardian Africa (Kenya) | Published: January 5th, 2015 |
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