And, for secondary schools, distance learning will be done by computer
tablets. Here's a broad outline for that program which starts on
October fifth:
Carol Babb - Chief Education Officer
"Distance education will be a little bit different at the secondary level.
It will be done primarily online. The Ministry of Education will also be
distributing very shortly, digital learning devices and eBooks to all
secondary schools who do not have access to these resources. There are some
secondary schools who are ready to begin online education and the Ministry
of Education is allowing some schools that can demonstrate readiness, to
being on the 22nd of September, if they can assure us that every child will
be included on the 22nd of September if they want to begin earlier than the
start-up date which is the 5th of October. Like 56% of students at the
secondary level have devices, there are 22 thousand students at the
secondary level, so based on that survey, we believe that there are about
11 thousand students who have and about 11 thousand students who don't have
and the ministry will provide devices to the students who do not have and
the survey that we are also conducting right now, we are asking teachers to
name the students who don't have because later on we don't know what will
happen."
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