| Ministry on handing out of laptops: ‘Rest days’ by teachers caused delay |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| This year’s Form One school children have not yet received their laptop computers and the Ministry of Education’s communications manager, Yolanda Morales-Carvalho, is blaming the two-day ‘rest’ teachers took last week. Laptop distribution began on September 5 and was expected to take two weeks. However, Morales-Carvalho said on Monday in a telephone interview with the T&T Guardian that the ministry was still delivering them. She could not say how many laptops had been handed out or how much longer distribution was expected to take. Laptops are part of the Government’s eConnect and Learn (e-Cal) programme initiated in 2010 to integrate information communications technology (ICT) into education. Although this is the third school year that students were receiving laptops, e-books have not yet been implemented and concern is mounting about the effectiveness of the programme. |
| Source: Trinidad Guardian (Trinidad & Tobago) | Published: September 19th, 2012 |
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