Provide affordable internet in schools: Govt

Government has urged mobile operators to provide affordable internet services to schools to enhance access to e-learning.

“Government recently launched the national e-learning strategy for schools to complement traditional forms of learning, to mitigate disruptions to the education sector caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Information and Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere said in a speech to commemorate World Telecommunications and Information Society Day.

“As we move along with implementation of the e-learning programme, we have noted that a number of schools are finding it difficult to fund their respective e-learning programmes on account of the unaffordable internet bandwidth.”

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