OLE Rwanda Increases Activities and Support
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Dr Richard Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Open Learning (OLE) Consortium visited Rwanda from 27th June till 3rd July 2010. Dr Richard and Mr. Jacques Murinda, Executive Director OLE Rwanda held several meetings with top leaders of the Ministry of Education of Rwanda including the Minister of Education ( Dr Charles Muringande), the Director General of Education and the Director General of Rwanda National Examination Council (RNEC).
Discussions focused on things that might advance the achievement of Quality Universal Basic Education (QUBE) in Rwanda including multi-grade classrooms, innovative approaches, and digital library. The Minister of Education requested OLE Rwanda to support the process of improving the Primary School Leaving Examination System a follow up meeting with the General Director of the Rwanda National Examination Council resulted in the development of a concept note to further the development of this project.
A beta version of the Billion Kids Basic Education Library is being tested and registered in Rwanda and a ladder access model on a stand alone Schoolserver is helping Teachers and Students of EPAKE School to access resources on XOs. OLE Rwanda is planning to expand its support to access education resources in Schools and Teacher training for Teachermate (TM) project in September 2010; TM shall be implemented in two Schools. OLE Rwanda is also hosting the 2010 OLE General Assembly(GA) at Kigali/Rwanda; GA registration is underway.
