Tablet devices for students in Kaduna to boost learning

A total of 5,000 tablet devices have been procured by the government of Kaduna state for distribution to students in public secondary schools across the state to boost learning, this was disclosed yesterday by Prof. Andrew Nok, Kaduna state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology.

According to him, the step will allow the students to acquire skills in Information Technology as well as properly integrate them into the IT world. He revealed that the devices will be distributed to students in SS1 across the state.

He said: “The tablets are loaded with all the needed programmes and will be distributed to Senior Secondary School I (SSI) students in all public secondary schools across the state. By the time the SSI students move to SSII, the government will procure another set of tablets and distribute to the newly admitted SSI students.

“We will continue this way until all our senior secondary school students have computer tablets and are part of the IT driven world.”

The commissioner added that the effort would not only improve teaching and learning but would also make the students computer compliant.

Nok said the state government has equally gone some steps further by setting aside N100 million research grant to solve some environmental, health and security issues in the state.

According to him, the grant is open for any scientist from any institution, who wishes to carry out research, either on health, environment, conflict resolution or other issues confronting the state.

“We are calling on scientists and researchers to use the opportunity and access the grant.

“All they need to do is to send a proposal and if we are convinced it would solve a pressing problem in the state, we will give such a person go ahead,’’ the commissioner said.