ICT in Education in Lesotho

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Excerpted from infoDev's Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (Volume2): 53 Country Reports

For more information about this project, please see Survey of ICT and Education in Africa.

This short report provides a general overview of current activities and developments related to ICT use in education in the country.

Contents:

Overview
Country profile
The Education System
ICT Policies
Infrastructure
Current ICT Initiatives and Projects
Implementing ICT in Education

Please note:

ICT use in education is at a particularly dynamic stage in Africa, which means that there are new developments and announcements happening on a daily basis somewhere on the continent. Therefore, this report should be seen as a “snapshot” that was current at the time it was taken; it is expected that certain facts and figures presented in this report may become dated very quickly.

It is anticipated that the reports developed as part of infoDev's Survey of ICT and Education in Africa will serve as the building block for an on-line database (in a wiki format) that will be updated collaboratively over time, based on additional research and feedback received through the infoDev web site.

To suggest modifications to this country report, please e-mail ict4edu AT infoDev DOT org or enter your comments below.

By Shafika Isaacs. Published December 2007.

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Comments on this Publication

infoDev modification said: | 30 January 2008, 2:38 PM

Table 1 on p. 2 of the report shows a gender parity index of 0.486 (2004), suggesting very low gender parity. In fact, Lesotho has almost perfect gender parity, with girls having a slight advantage until very recently. In 1999 the index value was 1.13. It narrowed to 1.08 in 2000. Since then, it stabilized at 1.07. An index value of 1 denotes equal participation of appropriately aged females and males in primary education whereas a value of more than one (1) as was the case in Lesotho, means there were more females than males of the appropriate age enrolled in primary schools.