The Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine and Google to equip 100 schools with wireless high-rate internet, Science and Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk has told a news conference.
He says for the project they chose as town so as rural schools.
“We have reached agreement that there will be fifty rural schools and fifty town schools,” the minister said.
In frames of the programme they tested equipment in five schools of the Obolon district of Kyiv, and also held an anonymous consultation.
Results of the consultation show, 85% of teachers, 87% of parents and 56% of pupils are positive about the programme.
Tabachnyk believes that this low rating of the programme among the schoolchildren owes to the function of online notification of parents about results of each day in school.
“The project supposes online provision of information to parents about of each day in school, that is why, obviously, the rating is that low among the pupils,” he joked.
In frames of the programme 25 teachers were trained to handle equipment that will enable them teach pupils who are simultaneously in several locations.
The minister remarks, this aspect of the programme will allow pupils not to interrupt learning in times of epidemics.
The Education Ministry press service did not specify time frames when the schools would be equipped.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Tabachnyk set him a task of connecting all schools to the internet.
