The School Laptops Project Continues in Malaysia

We have previously written about the Malaysian state of Kuala Terengganu and their mission to give school children technology

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Just to keep you updated, the notebooks / e-books for Year Five pupils in the state will be distributed in stages from the end of the month. The first batch of the 15,000 units arrived from Taiwan last week. And is part of the state government’s project aimed at providing quality education, and also reducing the burden of heavy schoolbags for the children. They still intend distribute the devices free of charge to all pupils and we hope to cover the entire primary level in the next few years.There are some 23,000 pupils in the state who will benefit from the e-book project.

The Gong Badak factory is projected to produce 10,000 units a month while the state has commissioned some 100 graduates in the field of information technology to coach schoolchildren and teachers on using the e-books.

Shoolbags Still on Track to Get Lighter

We wrote earlier this year about the deployment of laptops into state schools in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Some would think that is the end of the story and we never know whether they get deployed or not. This is the first programme of it kind in Malaysia.

We learnt today that year 5 pupils will have to wait until the end of next month but it is going ahead there are now just waiting for the delivery of the laptops from Shanghai. This is now scheduled for mid May. Under the programme, aimed exposing students to information and communications technology, 25,000 ebooks would be given to Year 5 pupils in the first stage will have lighter schoolbags.