BY EDITOR
Government has distributed Secure Digital (SD) devices to all privately owned institutions of learning in Kasese district which they will be using in the implementation of the Teacher Effectiveness and Learner Achievement System (TELA).
The TELA is a tool designed to monitor the teachers, head teachers and learners’ attendance as well as the implementation of school timetables in all institutions of learning across the country.
A Secure Digital (SD) card is a tiny flash memory card designed for high-capacity memory and various portable devices such as cellular phones, e-books, smart phones, digital cameras, music players, digital and personal computers.
Whereas government has already given fully installed smart phones to public schools for the implementation of the system, private schools are ought to buy phones for themselves in which they would install the given cards.
While handing over the devices to the beneficiaries Monday at Kasese Primary School, Mr. Caleb Atukunda, a staff from the Planet Systems that are charged with the responsibility of designing the system, explained that government found it hard to procure phones to the private schools because they are expensive.
He revealed that each phone was sold to government at shillings 780,000.
The Kasese District Principal Inspector of Schools, Mr. Earnest Bwambale Thabugha urged the private school owners to embrace all the programs introduced by government to create good learning environments for the learners. However, some of participants urged government to also give them installed systems like their counterparts in government schools.