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The gov­ern­ment is set to mod­ernise class­room learn­ing from Jan­u­ary with an am­bi­tious dig­i­tal ed­u­ca­tion dri­ve cost­ing tens of mil­lions.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounced that 18,000 de­vices worth $146 mil­lion will be dis­trib­uted to Form One stu­dents, along­side ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) train­ing for 10,800 teach­ers.

Dur­ing his maid­en bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion yes­ter­day, Tan­coo said $8.766 bil­lion is be­ing al­lo­cat­ed to ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing, un­der­scor­ing the gov­ern­ment’s fo­cus on equip­ping stu­dents and teach­ers for a dig­i­tal fu­ture.