Abstract:
Information communication and technology (ICTs) has become common place entities in all aspects of life.
Within the education sector, ICT has begun to have a special attention although not extensively as in other fields
both globally and locally. Limited funds still presents a challenge in rolling out the e-school projects in Kenyan
secondary schools and more so in Mombasa County. This paper presents trends in financing ICT projects in
secondary schools in Mombasa County and how projects in the sampled schools which are ICT complaint
manage the IT programmes. Furthermore, the paper also sought to uncover the alternative financing options
available that could complement the existing ICT projects in increasing the pace of e-schools project
implementation. A case study was used using three categories of respondents in each school namely; the
administrators, the teachers and the students who were issued with questionnaires and interview schedules whose
results revealed that many of the schools which had ICT facilities depended heavily on government funding CDF
in financing the ICT projects. The paper also reports that the schools under study were already using educational
management software for various processes in the schools. It was revealed that schools still faced infrastructural
challenges due to inadequate finances. Notable challenges including limited funding to support the purchase of
the ICT facilities to improve access to educational materials, lack of training for teachers to adopt ICT as a
teaching tool and lack suitable e-content for various subjects. The outcome of the findings indicated that largely
the initial objectives of the project had been realized in a number of the sampled schools. Teachers, students and
the school administrators were using computers to access educational resource material from the internet,
prepare and process examination results, manage, monitor and process financial reports and communicate using
email. It was also evident that the quality of teaching and learning, students’ level of interaction, reasoning,
recall, synthesis and evaluation had improved tremendously. It is upon this background that the paper sought to
analyze the impact of financing ICT projects in managing of secondary schools e- learning in Mombasa County,
Kenya.
