Both political parties have promised the computer tablets will be given to school children; but there are vast differences between the promises made so far.
The Partit Laburista is promising a free tablet computer to Year IV schoolchildren. Some four thousands school children will benefit.
The Partit Nazzjonalista, on the other hand, will give a tablet to all primary and secondary school children and their teachers. The number of school children and teachers that will benefit will run into the tens of thousands.
Both parties said that the tablets would be given to children in government, private and church schools.
The Partit Laburista, according to reports in timesofmalta.com wants to give these tablets to improve the IT literacy of school children.
The Partit Nazzjonalista is far more ambitions even in its proposal on the use that these tablets would be put to. Its proposal goes beyond the Labour objective of improving IT literacy.
The Prime Minister said that that electronic format of school books would be provided. This would eliminate, for example and for starters, the problem of the baskets of enormous sizes that schoolchildren are forced to carry. This is not the main...
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