Portugal First Computers Tender

The Minister of Education Tiago Brandao Rodrigues said that the first computers within the scope of the Digital School will be distributed during the first half of November.Tiago Brandao Rodrigues was speaking this Thursday at a hearing at the Education Science Youth and Sports Commission in the Assembly of the Republic where he was accompanied by the Secretary of State and Deputy for Education Joo Costa and by the Secretary of State for Education Ins Ramires.In all around 100 thousand computers will be distributed which according to the Minister are intended for schools in the educational territories with priority intervention and for students benefiting from school social action.Procedures for the acquisition of a very significant number of other computers have also been launched for students with school social action which we hope will arrive this school year at our schools explained Tiago Brando Rodrigues.The Minister also said that the digital transition plan is based not only on the distribution of computers but also on the issues of equipment and connectivity on the training of teachers and on the development and availability of digital pedagogical resources and on the dematerialization of physical resources .Regarding the training of teachers the Secretary of State and Deputy for Education said that the training program has already started in collaboration with the training centers and that the first phase - which started on Friday - will include around 400 teachers who will be trainers in the next phase.Joao Costa also said that a diagnosis will be made on the level of digital proficiency of teachers based on which an individualized plan of training needs in the area is designed.From then on we will have accredited training for all teachers with face-to-face asynchronous and workshop sessions that cover topics such as the ability to use technologies constantly pedagogical practices in a hybrid regime and in a non-classroom regime computing programming robotics among others he added.7 million more to guarantee protective equipmentThe Minister of Education also announced an additional investment of around seven million euros to guarantee masks and other personal protective equipment for schools in the second term. The information has already been sent to schools to reinforce the school budget by around seven million euros to ensure purchases for the second period of everything schools really need namely masks alcohol gel and all other materials they need in a timely manner revealed Tiago Brando Rodrigues.