RASUCO Institute of Technology and Business Studies in Bondo Sub County has launched an initiative to partner with local day schools in the region to teach students computer literacy skills.
According to the institutions' manager Evans Ochieng Akumu, students from various day schools will have the opportunity to visit the college for a whole day to get conversant with both the hardware and software parts of a computer for free.
Ochieng revealed that the decision to engage students on computer skills was informed by the fact that unlike established boarding schools in the region, day schools which are attended by students from financially disadvantaged learners, lack basic ICT facilities and they are therefore disadvantaged in terms of digital skills compared to their counterparts from boarding schools. "In this day and age computer skills cut across every sector of life.
When one group of students is able to access computer skills at a tender age (primary school) or secondary school level, while the other group has never set sight on a physical computer until they complete Form 4, you can already see the disparity.
