Kutama Day High School flagship of govt’s digitilisation programme

 

By Lloyd Mwale in Kutama

Kutama Day High School has become a beacon and a shining example of government’s digitalisation of the education sector in Zvimba East after commening information and computer lessons at the institution to its students and the community, it has been learnt.

According to the school head Simon Mudzingwa (picture) the institution had made huge strides in providing information and computer technology lessons.

“As a school we have managed to instal two satelite wifi devices from some reputable service providers and these have capacity to accommodate all our 732 pupils and we as connected to the national grid we do not worry about availability of electricity  like other rural-based schools,” Mudzingwa said.

“Two of our staff members who are trained in ICT while a third one is currently receiving government assistance in a capacity building programme in information and computer technology. Our Advanced Level classes are doing a Hexco Computer Operations syllabus and we also have a non-formal class of 13 students drawn from the community also doing Computer Operations.

“In order to safeguard our devices and its infrastructure, the school has employed security guards to man the school,”said the Kutama Day school head.

Kutama Day High school students interviewed spoke highly of the government initiative to digitalise schools to transform education in Zimbabwe.

Tadiwanashe Storm. an ‘O’ Level student at the school said that digitalising the education sector will benefit many pupils.

“The government initiative of digitalising schools has many benefits to us as we can recieve assignments on the internet and will make us to research more on some subjects that are a challenge to many of us.” said Tadiwanashe.

Another ‘O’ Level student, Praise Nyangani said that the government initiative will motivate many students to take school lessons seriously.

“The program of digitalising the education sector will motivate more students to take school lessons seriously as it will reduce travelling costs for us here in rural areas who travel long distance to schools.”

Zvimba East District has 145 primary schools and 66 high schools, but most schools in the district lacks requisite infrastructures for the implementation of the government initiative to digitalise schools.

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