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DepEd: Public-private partnerships key to ICT education

GMANews -- Wed, Jul 13, 2011
Ulat ni: Joshua Ray M. Cabusas

Engaging the private sector in bringing technology tools to public schools in the country is a key ingredient in the Department of Education's (DepEd) push for information and communications technology (ICT) in education in the country, a ranking official said on Wednesday.
Speaking to the press at the sidelines of the 2nd Asia Pacific Ministerial Forum on ICT Education, DepEd Sec. Armin Luistro said that the government alone cannot address current education challenges, such as the need to impart 21st-century skills to students.
Luistro said that, with the help of the private sector, they were able to make great strides in bringing ICT to schools.
"One of our major achievements this year is that we were able to connect all 7,000 public high schools in the country, except for those without power and mobile connectivity," Luistro said.
"[In these endeavors], you need innovation and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to get the projects moving," he added.
Luistro shared that GILAS (Gearing up Internet Literacy and Access for Students) —a collaboration among several Philippine corporations aiming to connect public schools in the country to the Internet— provided funding for connecting about half of all the public high schools to the Internet.

MINI BALITA/ ANGRY BIRDS ulat ni John Daniel M. Cabusas

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