{"id":22913,"date":"2016-02-01T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/university-students-to-get-laptops-on-credit\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T00:30:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:30:46","slug":"university-students-to-get-laptops-on-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/university-students-to-get-laptops-on-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"University students to get laptops on credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The government plans to facilitate students access laptops for which they pay in installments at a later date. } <\/p>\n<p>The move follows agreements the government of Rwanda signed with Positivo \u2013BGH, a company that assembles computers and accessories in Rwanda. Under the agreement, the government will be buying computers from Positivo \u2013BGH for use in the education sector. <\/p>\n<p>University students will sign agreements with Rwanda Education Board (REB) accepting to pay for the laptops in installments while students from primary and secondary schools will get computers at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>This was unveiled by the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr C\u00e9lestin Ntivuguruzwa when he attended the ceremony of handing 229 computers re-assembled and mended by Tumba College students to secondary school heads. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cREB will receive over 23,000 laptops, the government bought in Positivo \u2013BGH Company. Some of them will be given to primary and secondary schools while others that total 11, 220 will be given to university students on credit. We will start from first year students who are soon starting the second semester,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA laptop fee will be added to the bursary every student gets from the government to be paid for as students pay back the living allowances,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ntivuguruzwa said this program is introduced in the wake of several requests from students. He added that talks are underway to avail the program to private universities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10346 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dr_ntivuguruzwa_celestin_umunyamabanga_wa_leta_uhoraho_muri_minisiteri_y_uburezi.jpg\" alt=\"The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr C\u00e9lestin Ntivuguruzwa\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The government plans to facilitate students access laptops for which they pay in installments at a later date. } The move follows agreements the government of Rwanda signed with Positivo \u2013BGH, a company that assembles computers and accessories in Rwanda. Under the agreement, the government will be buying computers from Positivo \u2013BGH for use in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000071885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-22913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000071885,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22913.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22913.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22913.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22913.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22913.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22913.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000071885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22913"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=22913"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=22913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}