The 2015 academic year begins in South Africa today, and is being marked in the province of Gauteng by the formal launch of an ambitious plan to give every child in the area a tablet for their education, and upgrade every public school with the IT infrastructure and connectivity to make full use of them. ‘Classrooms of the Future’ is being piloted in seven Gauteng schools. The pilot will be monitored over the course of the next two years, with a view to introducing paperless classrooms in all public schools in the province by 2018. The pilot has the backing of the national government, and deputy president Cyril Ramaposa attended the flagship school in Tembisa township just north of Johannesburg this morning. “Technology, the internet, a multi-skilled workforce, innovation, and collaboration are critical to the success of the knowledge economy,” Ramaposa said. The project has been championed by Gauteng’s head of education, Panyaza Lesufi.
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