How is CBC different to 8-4-4? How does the new curriculum effect my child? What are the new competencies? Have KCPE Exams been abolished?These are just a few of the questions we receive every day about the CBC from parents…
Five tips to improve your KCPE score
Have you marked your calendar? October 30, October 31 and November 1. It’s stressful when people are telling you, “These are the most important days of your life!” but don’t let the pressure of KCPE get to you. Follow…
Spotlight on Hadithi Hadithi!
Hadithi Hadithi! is a digital library of dozens of stories for 6-8 year olds. Each story is written by a Kenyan teacher, beautifully illustrated by artists across East Africa, and read by actors and celebrities. Each story has spelling and…
Teaching literacy to youth in Dadaab
According to what statistics you use, Dadaab refugee camp is the fifth or sixth biggest city in Kenya. In the middle of 2017, its population was 250,000 and Norwegian Refugee Council (an international humanitarian organisation that focuses on displaced people) was running…
eLimu katika makala ya teknohama KTN!
Tulipata nafasi ya kuhojiwa na wanahabari kutoka kituo cha KTN katika ofisi zetu humu jijini Nairobi siku ya jumatatu tarehe 19/02/2018. Msimamizi wetu wa kampeni za soko, Diana Wangui aliweza kuhojiwa kuhusu programu zetu zinazowalega wanafunzi katika shule za msingi.…
Testing our apps at Story Moja Festival
One of the highlights of 2017, was getting the apps that we’ve spent so long working on into the hands of children at the Story Moja Festival. eLimu’s apps are already in over a hundred schools across East Africa, but…
Take KCPE Exams on our new android app!
We are delighted to launch our new android app, KCPE Exams. Now you can take over 100 past papers from 2016 all the way back to 2000. With each past paper you get: Instant results (so no marking for teachers!)…
The Guardian reports on eLimu and the DigiSchool Project
The Guardian reports from KNLS library in Kibera, where students are using BRCK’s Kiokit with forty tablets and eLimu’s KCPE Revision software to prepare for exams. It’s a hot Tuesday afternoon and Martin and his classmates are studying biology in…
Can digital education work in Samburu?
Heading North from Isiolo on the road to Ethiopia, you reach a small town called Archer’s Post: turn down a murram road for 30km, and you will find the Samburu village of Kiltamany. Not far from here, tourists come to…
eLimu on the BBC
We got a visit from Jonathan Kalan of the BBC, and took him to Amaf Primary School to show him how they are using eLimu’s apps for KCPE revision, and getting tangible results. Here’s an extract below: “Our curriculum in Kenya…
eLimu featured in The Economist
The Economist visits Amaf Primary School in Kawangware to see how tablets are being used and how the children are already showing improvements in results: At Amaf School, average marks in science, for instance, went from 58 to 73 out…