Intel to support Ministry of Education’s ‘1,000 Schools Project’

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Intel Sri Lanka recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Education in support of the Government’s 1,000 Schools Project.

Under this MoU, Intel Teach, a professional development program that enables educators to effectively integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into their lessons to promote problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills among their students will be introduced to enhance the teaching experience across these schools.

At the signing ceremony Minister of Education Bandula Gunewardena said: “ICT education is vital to succeed in the 21st century and our work with Intel has helped make significant progress towards achieving this. Our initiative of launching 1000 schools across the Island is aimed at taking the benefits of good education to the rural children. Having trained over 23,000 teachers, islandwide, the Intel Teach program will help teachers in these 1,000 schools too to integrate ICT into their lessons and empower our students to keep abreast with the rest of the world.”

The MoU was signed by Ministry of Education Secretary H.M. Gunasekera and Intel Sri Lanka Country Manager Indika de Zoysa in the presence of the Minister of Education Bandula Gunewardena, Additional Secretary to the President’s Office Anura Dissanayake, and other Ministry officials.

“The MoE’s 1,000 schools project is making strides in creating a workforce that will turn Sri Lanka into a knowledge hub. Integrating Intel’s Teach program with this will equip our teachers with the skills needed to achieve this goal,” said Additional Secretary Dissanayake.

“Our work with Intel over the past five years has led to remarkable progress in ICT education in the country. We hope to take this further with the 1,000 schools project too,” said Secretary Gunasekera.De Zoysa said, “Intel has always worked towards improving the standards of education in Sri Lanka and supported the Government’s initiative of taking ICT to the students. Intel Teach program helps young minds compete in an innovative society that comes from the teachers.”