In August 1978, UNICEF agreed to fund this primary school project, and reaffirmed the objectives which had been agreed on in previous discussions with the University. These objectives were: 
 

The world facing this generation is new, different, and still rapidly changing. Nothing more evidence this than the ubiquitous presence of computers in all our lives. So fundamental and so far reaching are the changes ushered in by this new Information Age, that to speak of a knowledge of computers as a new literacy is no longer hyperbole.

In the six years (1966-1972) the Bernard Van Leer Foundation funded the Project for Early Childhood Education (PECE) in Jamaica, with a view, inter alia, to: (i) upgrading the teaching competence of Basic School teachers through in-service training, (ii) developing, experimentally, instructional materials for use in the programme. Their concern was that no hindrances to a child's development occur as a result of con­tinued presence in an impoverished environ­ment, and furthermore, that where children are forced for socio-economic reasons to live in such a context, an attempt at compen­satio