Nairobi, Kenya, September 19, 2019//-More than 1100 Kenyan teachers completed their digital skills training in August ahead of this year’s Africa Code Week (ACW), which will take place across the continent in October.
During the second half of August, teachers attended ACW Train-the-Trainer workshops in Mombasa, Kisumu, Kilifi and Nairobi and gained valuable knowledge and teaching tools to fast-track digital skills development among the country’s youth. The TTT workshops were organised with the support of local NGOs Pwani Teknowogalz and RCD Africa.
With more than 50,000 teachers trained and 4.1 million youth engaged across 37 countries since its inception in 2015, Africa Code Week has already made a lasting contribution to building local teaching capacity on digital education, all over the continent.
* African countries are facing a massive challenge with finding teachers: an estimated 17 million are needed to achieve the goal of universal primary and secondary school education by 2030.
* Only one-quarter of pre-school teachers in sub-Saharan Africa are trained. About half of all upper secondary school teachers are trained.
* Sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled the number of pupils enrolled in primary school between 1990 and 2015, from 60 million to 157 million.
* An estimated 65% of children starting primary school today will end up working in jobs that don’t yet exist.
* Nearly two-thirds of employees working for African organisations in a recent World Bank study require at least basic digital skills to do their jobs.
* According to the World Bank, global employers consider digital skills to be among the top seven most important skills for the future workforce.