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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1987

COMPUTER STUDIES SCHEME FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

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PUBLIC SECTOR SECONDARY

TAKE

THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IS INVITING SCHOOLS WHICH HAVE NOT YET JOINED THE COMPUTER STUDIES SCHEME TO PART IN THE SCHEME IN THE 1988-89 SCHOOL YEAR.

AND ITS

THE SCHEME IS DESIGNED TO GIVE STUDENTS A OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE MICRO-COMPUTER MODERN WORLD.

BASIC UNDERSTANDING APPLICATION IN THE

A TOTAL OF 294 SECONDARY SCHOOLS JOINED THE SCHEME.

IN

THE

PUBLIC SECTOR

HAVE

THE COMPUTER STUDIES SYLLABUS CATERS FOR A

RECOMMENDED TIME-ALLOCATION

TWO-YEAR STUDY AT OF POUR

SECONDARIES 4 AND 5

WITH

A

PERIODS PER WEEK.

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE SYLLABUS

AWARENESS

SKILLS AND AN

OF DATA STUDENTS WITH A WORKING KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGY.

IN ADDITION,

PROBLEM-SOLVING

TO IS

DEVELOP

AND PROVIDE PROCESSING CONCEPTS OF THIS RAPIDLY GROWING FORM OF

STUDIES THE SYLLABUS IDENTIFIES THEORETICAL

DISTRIBUTED REGULARLY COMPLEMENTED BY PRACTICAL WORK WHICH SHOULD BE

WITH OVER THE TWO-YEAR PERIOD MICRO-COMPUTERS.

TO DEVELOP

'HANDS-ON' EXPERIENCE

MADE AVAILABLE

A GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY OF UP TO $25,000 WOULD BE TO EACH PARTICIPATING SCHOOL FOR INTO A COMPUTER CLASSROOM.

FURNISHING AND CONVERTING A ROOM

THE CONVERSION WORK SHOULD BE SEPTEMBER NEXT YEAR TO FACILITATE THE EQUIPMENT.

COMPLETED TOWARDS THE END OF INSTALLATION OF THE COMPUTER

GIVEN 11 MICRO-COMPUTERS

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS WOULD ALSO BE WITH VDUS'S, 12 DISC DRIVES AND TWO PRINTERS WITH INTERFACES, SAID THE SPOKESMAN,

THE EQUIPMENT WOULD BE DELIVERED

TO THE SCHOOLS IN OCTOBER

NEXT YEAR.

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