Many initiatives are ongoing to increase the quality of Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics education at Primary and Secondary School levels:

There is a drive to ensure the relevance of education and one major reform currently being implemented is to transform the secondary school curriculum to a competence based system with student centred learning and focusing on areas such as critical thinking, learning by doing and many other areas. The Ministry of Education is also focusing on the strengthening of ICT in Education as a solution to strengthen and improve access to a wide range of educational databases. An extremely ambitious National ICT Master Plan for Rwanda has been developed which is targeted to build on National fibre optic backbone, and complementary 4G LTE last mile solution, throughout the whole of Rwanda taking advantage of the ICT devices produced by the Positivo-BGH factory in Rwanda. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is one of the innovative projects in basic education that aims at enhancing education through the introduction of technology in primary schools. It has enabled students to learn by doing through graphically rich, animated, interactive digital course and gaming. Through partnerships with international organisations and events such as Scratch Day, Rwandan students are truly becoming global citizens at an early age. Pupils from primary four to six and various educators in the country join on an international network of other learners, teachers and enthusiasts who use the Scratch programming platform. The Government of Rwanda, through the Ministry of Education, has been distributing OLPC laptops and tablets to primary school students in Rwanda since 2009. The program reaches 67 % of primary schools from 47 % in 2015, i.e., from 1141 to 1664 schools. OLPC laptops are being used to prepare young engineers at the same time preparing future innovators in drones and robotics programming. A showcase is a Keza Learning centre located in Kicukiro for children aged between 5 and 17.

The use of ICT in education is considered an important strategy for achieving the transformation envisioned in Vision 2050. This is also in line with the strategic goal of the Education Sector Strategic Plan to strengthen the relevance of education and training to the labour market including the insertion of 21st century skills. The Smart Classroom is able to bring 21st century education systems to Rwanda, through the inclusion of new, relevant and ICT based technologies. The Smart Classroom is available for 55 % of secondary schools across the country.

Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) stipulates that encouraging innovations in the education sector is a central element of the Ministry focus. Introducing innovative solutions to address existing challenges in the sector will act as a catalyst for achieving overall sector goals. Therefore, the Ministry of Education, initiated “Tech Enabled STEM Teaching” (TEST) program to prepare STEM graduates to meet local and worldwide engineers and scientists’ requirements. TEST program comprises teaching and learning using Virtual Realities, Gamification, and Robotics programming just to mention few of them.

In order to strengthen the English language proficiency and digital literacy through e-learning. Several main activities are ongoing including: (i) development of online courses and assessment tools for enhancement of English language proficiency and digital literacy skill development of teachers, and (ii) review and strengthening of the e-learning platform owned by REB. The language and digital literacy are very important as the medium of acquiring and transferring knowledge and skills, and the latter is transformed into business using entrepreneurship which is a cross cutting subjects to basic and TVET education. The reason being that the government is putting efforts to train teachers to help learners to apply the business knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired to seize opportunities and solve environmental, economic and social problems.