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Govt Schools To Get Connected
By Lyna Mohamad

Bandar Seri Begawan - With a special emphasis on ICT towards achieving the National Vision or Wawasan Brunei 2035, Brunei's Ministry of Education has embarked on an ambitious project to wire-up all schools under the ministry so that all students, teachers and staff will be able to have network access to share the resources to enhance their teaching-learning experience.

School Network Infrastructure or SNI is one of the 29 projects under the e-Education flagship and 21 of the projects have been awarded since 2004. Ten of them have been completed and another 10 are in implementation stages and one is in the process of contract drafting.

Acting Director of ICT at the Ministry of Education, Awg Hj Abd Rahim Derus, said this at the contract signing ceremony of SNI for government primary, secondary and religious schools yesterday.

He said SNI is a network infrastructure to provide reliable and efficient network and other related hardware and peripherals to all schools under the MoE. The project will cover 123 government primary schools, 31 secondary schools and 50 religious institutions.

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Idris Hj Abas, meanwhile, said the Local Area Network (LAN) is the fundamental infrastructure for IT and just like in construction, there must be a road to access the construction site, thus LAN is the "road" for all ICT activities.

With the network communications in place, students, teachers and staff will not only be able to have network access to share resources to enhance their teaching-learning experience but also have access to MoE learning and administration resources in the near future.

"It is our aim to build our own Brunei ICT workforce equipped with specialised skills in various aspects of ICT in line with the National Vision or Wawasan Brunei 2035, which is to build and accomplish a well-educated and highly skilled society and to build a first class education system that provides opportunities for every citizen and resident to meet the requirements of our changing economy and encourage life-long learning." he said.

It is also aimed at improving the quality of life by providing Bruneians with high standards of living and political stability and to have a dynamic and sustainable economy that provides the people with quality employment in both public and private sectors. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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