The Ministry of Education is preparing to distribute netbooks that will be destined for students and teachers of public secondary schools throughout the country
Next month, the national government will deliver more than 500,000 computers -free of charge- to students and teachers of public secondary schools throughout Argentina ,within the framework of the restitution of the Connect Equality Program.
President Nicolás Maduro ratified this Thursday his government’s decision to deliver tablets free of charge to students at the country’s public universities and announced that Wi-Fi service will be provided in higher education houses and high schools.
He pointed out that “we have just signed an agreement with Samsung and we are going to install a factory for Samsung tablets and computers in Venezuela,” he pointed out and showed a tablet that he said is “a first model, which we are going to perfect.”
“Let’s make all the arrangements and soon all universities and high schools will have Wi-Fi internet access,” said the president.
“I want you to have the most absolute certainty that only with socialism is it possible to guarantee public education,” he said during a mass rally with university students in Miraflores.
Higher Education Minister Pedro Calzadilla recently said that the government estimates that next year it will produce 2.4 million tablets to deliver to university students.
“It is intended that there be continuity from primary education with the Canaimites and now in university education with tablets, both tools produced in our country,” Calzadilla said, according to an AVN note.
The Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk , assured last Monday that the Connect Equality Program “is the minimum floor that girls and boys must access so that the Argentine school definitely enters the 21st century” and confirmed that on March 2 it will begin the school year in person and carefully.
“We are going to start the year in March with more than 500,000 computers distributed to children in public secondary schools,” assured the head of the national educational portfolio. free government computers and tablets for college students
After the relaunch of the program last month, Perczyk announced that by the end of 2022 there will be “90% of Argentine kids with Internet at school and one and a half million computers distributed to kids in public secondary schools.”
“We are going to start the year in the month of March with more than 500 thousand computers distributed to the boys of the public high school” The distribution of technological resources, as officially established, will be carried out under the modality of delivery of a computer for each student and each teacher for state-run secondary schools and special education schools,in accordance with the criteria deemed appropriate by the Enforcement Authority.
In this way, the Ministry of Education is preparing to carry out the delivery of netbooks in the coming weeks. “Computers must be withdrawn by the parents of underage students and students must prove an ID.There are a lot of requirements that guarantee the identity of the person and those who have already received it are registered , because they can only receive it once,” sources from the educational portfolio told Infobae on Thursday .
And they added: “In this first stage,They will be received by all those from public schools and rural schools in Argentina, regardless of their socioeconomic level. Each province signs an adhesion agreement with the Ministry of Education and then the computers arrive directly at the school”.
Strictly speaking,netbooks will be awarded to teachers and students of 1st and 3rd year since -as they explained to this medium- those who are in the 2nd year today already received them in 2021.
You will not need to register anywhere, clarified the same sources. The equipment will be delivered to the school and parents must sign the agreement.
The 500,000 computers that the Government will deliver are of the Edunec brand, the same as those that were distributed in previous editions. They will be white and will have a 10,122 screen and a resolution of 1024×600.
Regarding the connectivity of the schools so that the children have access to the Internet, the official stated that they will connect 2,500 more schools before the end of March. And in this sense, he also recalled that all educational platforms with edu.ar domains have free navigation from cell phones as a result of an agreement between the educational portfolio and Enacom.
The head of the educational portfolio traveled last Monday to San Juan, where he signed an agreement with Governor Sergio Uñac by which the province adheres to the Connect Equality Program, which includes not only the delivery of computers but also improving and providing connectivity to schools.
“In this first stage, all public schools and rural schools in Argentina will receive it” (sources from the Ministry of Education)
“The computer is a tool that the State brings to them to build more equality and to restore the right to technology that they have,” the minister remarked.
According to the governor of San Juan, “the commitment of the national government shows clear signs of federalism, through constructive policies.” Currently -through this agreement-more than 200 schools in the province will benefitand with this “students will have more and better tools to develop,”
Details about the Connect Equality Program
The Government put the Connect Equality Program back into operation in order to guarantee the delivery of netbooks to students and teachers at the secondary level of state-managed special education.
The initiative was formalized last Wednesday, January 12, through Decree 11/2022, which was published in the Official Gazette. In the document, it was defined that the purpose of the plan is to “provide technological resources in state-managed public schools and develop educational proposals in order to favor their incorporation into teaching and learning processes.”
According to the official text, the return of the program is intended to “recover the spirit” of the initiative that was implemented in 2010 , and that will now help cover the needs due to lack of connectivity that were revealed during the coronavirus pandemic, where thousands of students had difficulty studying at home due to lack of technology and internet.’
Connect Equality will have its own financing through the items that are assigned annually in the Budget to the educational portfolio with funds from the National Treasury, as indicated in the rule signed by President Alberto Fernández, the Chief of Staff, Juan Manzur; and the Minister of Education.
The educational portfolio will be responsible for promoting “the necessary agreements with the provinces and with the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires for the proper fulfillment of the program’s objectives.”
In the first edition of the Connect Equality program, more than 5.3 million computers had been delivered to students and teachers throughout the country.
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