In the next few days, 140,000 notebooks worth 36 billion forints will be distributed to students in the 7th and 10th grades, the Secretary of State for Public Education of the Ministry of the Interior announced at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
Zoltán Maruzsa said that students of not only state, but also church and private public education institutions could apply for portable computers, so such devices are distributed in 2,572 schools in 1,462 settlements and more than 3,000 task performance locations.
In line with the concept of the service provider state, they aimed to provide all students from the 5th to the 12th grade who require a portable computer, with which they can access all the developments that have been implemented so far and will be implemented in the future – emphasized the state secretary .
He said that this means 579,000 portable computers, of which 55,000 were already given to teachers last spring. The first 65,000 devices were then distributed to the 9th graders. Now they have come to the second element of the program: notebooks are distributed to students in the 7th and 10th grades, he added.
According to the state secretary, there will be two more “notebook distributions” in the next two years.
„When we reach the end of this, we can say about the digitalization of Hungarian public education that we have gone through a historical transformation“, he said.
He highlighted that the biggest challenge facing education systems today and in the coming years is the issue of digitization. Significant state developments are taking place in the Hungarian education system in order to strengthen it, Zoltán Maruzsa added.
One of the prominent elements of the 2020 public education strategy was the digitization of the education system, he pointed out, and among its pillars he mentioned the KRÉTA system and its foreign language module, as well as the developed smart textbooks, digitized competence measurements, and smart classrooms.
In addition, ten billion forints were spent this year to strengthen the electronic network, said Zoltán Maruzsa.
Bence Rétvári, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, highlighted: according to the adopted budget, HUF 393 billion more will be spent on education next year, and the government’s goal is for Hungarian students to be able to use state-of-the-art tools and portals containing various knowledge at a skill level.
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