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Oct 26, 2011 News
Some 300 trainee teachers at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) will be receiving laptops before year-end under a joint government/World Bank US$4.2M teacher education reform project.
This is according to Education Minister Shaik Baksh, who was at the time addressing scores of Information Technology (IT) teachers at a recent workshop at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD). He said the initiative is part of the ministry’s effort to ensure teachers leave the college able to use the computer as both a teaching and learning tool.
The Ministry in its 2008-2013 Education Strategic Plan had planned to equip all secondary schools and 50 per cent of primary schools with computer laboratories by 2013.
According to the Ministry, work has already been completed on 80 secondary and 60 primary schools.
The remaining secondary schools are expected to be outfitted with computer laboratories by the first half of next year. Every secondary school will be equipped with 30 computers.
Currently, some 14,000 computers are being distributed to schools throughout the country as the ministry complements the training of teachers with the provision of relevant tools to effectively deliver the curriculum.
Some 3,000 teachers at both primary and secondary schools have already completed basic training in information technology and the ministry is hoping to train another 2,000 this year. The training is being done at NCERD and centres in the regions.
Baksh pointed out that quality teacher training is central to helping every child succeed at the IT examination, and disclosed that the ministry will soon move to make the subject compulsory in the school system.
This year, 2,000 candidates sat information technology at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examinations and Guyana obtained a pass rate of 97 percent pass, counting Grades One to Three, the highest in the Caribbean.
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