After years of work, the Ministry of Education and Sports has decided to drop the idea of drafting an Information and Communications Technology-ICT in education policy.
The policy on ICT in education had reached the consultation stage.
The ministry was expected to present the draft to interested groups and stakeholders for evaluation before sending it to the cabinet.
Dr. Jane Egau Okou, the Director for Higher, Technical, Vocational Education and Training at the education ministry, says that the ministry chose to rely on the current National ICT strategy rather than developing a sector-specific policy.
She says that the new development was suggested in their most recent sessions with some officials and experts observing that developing another policy be a duplication of the existing frameworks
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Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, which forced the closure of classrooms, actors in the education sector mostly educational institutions began relying on digital tools to ensure continued learning.
The State Minister for Higher Education, John Chrysostom Muyingo, halted the move saying that the use of smartphones by learners within the school environment would only be effected after the government develops a policy that would guide ICT gadgets by learners.END.
