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KCB Group has partnered with coding firm Kodris Africa to step up computer programming in schools.

Under the deal, the bank will offer funding deal for online tutorials. Parents will enroll children on a credit plan with a monthly repayment of Sh822 which represents a 50 discount from the standard rates.

In July, Safaricom launched a plan allowing customers to buy tokens for coding lessons on online wallet M-Pesa and activate them on a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer for their children.

“We are committed to supporting digital education in the country because that is how we will build the human capital to take full advantage of the opportunities available in the 21st-Century job market,” KCB Group chief executive Paul Russo said in a statement yesterday.

“When our children learn and master coding, they will become useful builders of the national and global digital economy.”
Digital literacy is a key plank of the competency based curriculum that has been rolled out in Grade Six, the final level of the primary school cycle.

US tech behemoths such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google are some of big corporates, have already joined the fast growing coding space in schools.
Coding, which is also known as programming, involves translating human intentions into commands that can be understood by computers.
The scramble for the spoils follows approval of coding initiative by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development as the government moves to boost digital literacy for learners.