Accelerated program for ICT development
The Education Ministry has launched a ICT program for senior and
junior school students. Teaching General Information Technology in the
Advanced Level classes will be strengthened and accelerated with a new
national examination scheduled for August this year for Grade 12
students. Similarly, a new subject in the Ordinary Level will be
introduced from January 2006 with IT as an option a release by the
Ministry of education said.
With the new curriculum Revision, Computer Science and IT subjects
will be introduced from grade 1 onwards. In grade 6 to 9 activity rooms
and science rooms will be introduced in all Navodya and National schools
from 2006 with computers and CD packs.
Similarly, primary classrooms in these schools will have "Science/Maths
Corners" where ICT concepts will be introduced through special learning
packages.
An extensive plan for IT development in the school system is
presently being developed for implementation from 2005 - 2010. Meanwhile
the ADB's Secondary Education Modernisation Project has contributed
significantly towards introducing and improving ICT education in all
secondary schools with IT labs.
The Ministry of Education has invited content providers from the
non-government and corporate sectors to contribute towards Ministry's
efforts in the preparation of teaching-learning materials in all
subjects in the primary and secondary school system, using IT as a
learning, the message said. |