By Martin Paul
Abuja
The federal government has imposed N5,000 per term levy on students in all Unity Colleges as charges for Information Communication Technology (ICT) courses.
Project Director of Skool Media, the ICT firm handling the project, Mr. Moses Imayi, disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja at a one-day interactive workshop organised for principals and ICT teachers in in unity schools.
Imayi said the project, also undertaken in collaboration with Samsung, would cover the 104 unity colleges and had already commenced at the Kings College, Lagos, with the provision of smart boards, projectors and educational tablets.
The ministry of education had earlier signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Skool Media to provide the facilities in all 104 unity colleges as well as build the capacity of teachers on the use of the facilities.
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Folasade Yemi-Esan, expressed government’s commitment to develop and deploy ICT in all sectors of the nation’s economy.
Yemi-Esan , who was represented by the director of Human Resources, Mohammed Bello, said the “Skool Media programme is a public private partnership initiative meant to transform the teaching and learning environment and institute an ICT-driven mode of education delivery in the colleges.”
