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EDUCATION Secretary Jesli Lapus said on Thursday the
government’s suspended cybereducation project may be
downscaled so that it can finally take off.
Lapus
told reporters at the First Biennial National Congress
on Education that an information technology group from
the Ateneo de Manila University is studying the
cybereducation project in terms of scale, scope and the
technology to be used.
He is
confident the project, which was suspended alongside the
controversial national broadband network project last
year, would be implemented.
“It’s
just a matter of time and scope. Perhaps it would be
best to do it on a smaller scale so that it can be
approved once and for all,” Lapus said.
He said
the project is proposed to be conducted in phases, which
means that if Phase 1 fails, there would be no second
phase.
“So
there’s really noting to be concerned or alarmed about,
and everybody’s already discussing it.
The
private sector, including those criticizing it because
of incomplete information, are included in the
discussions,” Lapus said.
President Arroyo, who had ordered the suspension of the
P26.48-billion project to be financed by a loan from the
Chinese government, reiterated the importance of the
project as a tool for bringing quality education to
remote areas in the country.
When she
was in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum,
the WEF Information Technology Governors, including
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, expressed support for the
project, said Mrs. Arroyo. |
