Berbice : As part of Government’s drive to ensure that every child is Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literate, by year-end all the secondary schools across the country will be equipped with functioning Information Technology (IT) labs.
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand made this disclosure during the commissioning of an IT lab at the Bath Primary School, Bath Settlement, Region Five, yesterday.
The lab was built to the tune of $6M by Government, and the computers were donated by former student of the school Canadian-based, Anthony Trevor Subyran.
Minister Manickchand, who unveiled the plaque to the lab, said the event marks the beginning of the first step to place more emphasis on equipping primary schools with IT labs so that students will become computer literate at an earlier age.
Minister Manickchand also took the opportunity to enlighten the audience about the 2014 National Budget and what it has in store for the education sector which was allocated $32.3B.
This allocation seeks to improve the quality and provision of education across the country, as the funds will serve to improve infrastructure, train more teachers, provide financial assistance for each child and improve the quality of education from nursery to university.
This year, 2,500 teachers are also expected to be trained in ITC, while the University of Guyana will be offering online degree courses.
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