The director of Educational Informatics Services at the Education Ministry, Fernando Ortega informed reporters in Havana that an initiative is to be launched to provide the largest possible number of education professionals possible with access to the Internet, for the purpose of their own preparation.
Some 26,650 teachers will be able to access the web from their schools by May, 2016, to support research and academic work.
By 2017, the ministry expects to have all middle schools, day-care centers and special education centers to be connected, in a process set to conclude with elementary schools in 2018.
The ministry also plans to distribute tablets for students, since at present the student/computer ratio is about 30 students per one PC.
