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Friday, March 16, 2007

EUROPEAN UNION DONATES 2 MILLION TO BOOST DISTANCE LEARNING

Department of Prime Ministers Office and Cabinet
By George Siapu

The delivery of education services to remote and rural communities in the country through the Distance Learning Mode has been further bolstered with the European Union’s donation of $2.2 millions worth of solar power and IT equipment to the Ministry of Education for its nine Distance Learning Centres that have already been built in the provinces.
The European Union Charge’ de Affaires Henry Prankerd today handed over the equipment to the Minister of Education Dr. Derek Sikua during a formal gathering at the Ministry of Education’s Head Office.
With this latest huge consignment of solar power and IT equipment, the other remaining eight Distance Learning Centres would now be able to start operation within the next 3 to 4 months and join the first Centre at St. Stephen High School at Pamua in Makira province, which has been operational, and on line since September 2006.
The Ministry of Education through its Education Sector Investment and Reform Programme under the Ministry Sector Wide Approach has coordinated these Distance Learning Centres. However, the Distance Learning Centre Project is implemented and managed by the Development Volunteers Association’s People Network together with the Ministry of Education.
These Centres are hosted by rural community schools with the intention to enhance and improve access to basic education for people in rural areas, including students, teachers and adults who wish to continue their education as well as technical and vocational training.
Distance Learning has been seen as an important mode for improvement and effective delivery of education services to remote and rural communities.
The Centres are also important points through which the Ministry of Education would utilize in addressing its priorities spelt out under the National Education Action Plan 2007 – 2009.
The users of these Centres in the provinces could conveniently access full range of courses from the University of the South Pacific (USP), which has been made deliverable through the installation of broadband Internet.
It is envisaged that these Distance Learning Centres would not only benefit the people in accessing formal and non-formal education but they could also experience other benefits which includes economic opportunities, health security, rural finance, improved participation in society and self-advancement through empowerment.
The $2.2 million assistance by the European Union had catered for the acquisition of 88 solar panels(10 kilo-watts), 96 deep-cycle gel solar batteries, 8 quality sine-wave inverters, 8 sets digital solar controllers with peripherals, 8 battery chargers, 8 sets solar panel mounting frames and other miscellaneous items including cables, fuses and lights.
The other major component of equipment supplied includes 65 Toshiba A8 laptops, 65 advanced port replicators, 65 external keyboards and optical mice, 9 dot matrix printers, 18 laser printers and 9 scanners.
CBS Power Solutions of Fiji supplied the solar power equipment and the IT equipment came from DataNets Limited of Papua New Guinea.
This invaluable support of equipment would now join the nine sets of VSAT equipment that have already been handed over, including other assorted networking equipment.

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