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The government project “Computer for every child” announced a year ago by the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has not been implemented yet, Vest daily reported.
The
electric installation in the schools is being checked for a year now and it is almost
certain that the computers will not be delivered to the schools by the end of
this school year. “Out of the total of 100.000 computers that should be delivered
to the schools, 90 percent have already been imported and they are now kept in warehouses.
The rest of the computers should get here in March”, says Drita Mamuti,
spokesperson of the Ministry of Education and Science. We already informed the
schools that the PE “Public Broadcasting” will be checking the electric installation
and networking the computers.
In
September last year, on the first day of the new school year, Prime Minister
Nikola Gruevski announced that all the 100.000 computers will have been
installed in the schools by November 2007. So far, only three high schools in
the country got computers, but they were only delivered half of the necessary
computers; the technical school in Bitola, ASUC
in Skopje and
the economic high school in Tetovo. More than 3.500 students are studying in these
three schools, and less than 700 computers have been delivered.
The people
from the high school “Josip Broz Tito” in Bitola
say that they haven’t got the computer tables yet, let alone the computers. The
employees of the economic school “September 8th” were told that they
will get all the computers before the beginning of the second term. “1.300
students are enrolled in our school, and we only have the 170 computers that
were delivered in September. Currently, the students are only using the
computers for accessing the internet since no programs have been installed for studying
school subjects”, say from the school.
Three hundred computers were delivered to
the technical school “Gjorgji Naumov” in Bitola,
and another three hundred were guaranteed to be delivered, since there are
1.000 students studying in this school. “The plan was to have 35 computers in every
classroom, but we still don’t”, says the school’s principal Dragan Stojanovikj.
According to him, only 4 teachers have undergone training for working with the
special programs that are installed. A total of 80 teachers are working in the
school.
Two hundred
computers were provided to the high school “Boro Petrushevski”, which has 1.140
students. “We need to have programs that could be used for studying all the school
subjects”, principal Ignat Donevski said.
There are
about 350.000 students in the elementary and high schools throughout Macedonia.
With the delivery of 100.000 computers, there will be three students per
computer instead of one. The representatives of the Ministry of Education
explain that most of the schools work in two shifts and that these computers would
be enough for the students. However, they are also considering an additional order
of 50.000 computers.
(R.F.)
Source: Vest, issue 2290, Feb. 5, 2008
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