Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has an­nounced that all lap­tops un­der the gov­ern­ment’s Form 1 dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gramme will ar­rive be­fore De­cem­ber 23, com­plet­ing the de­liv­ery of 18,000 AI-en­abled de­vices.

Speak­ing at Pe­nal Sec­ondary School on Thurs­day, Dowlath said 2,500 lap­tops have al­ready been de­liv­ered, an­oth­er 8,500 will ar­rive on De­cem­ber 3, and the re­main­ing 7,000 will be in the coun­try by De­cem­ber 23.

He said the dis­tri­b­u­tion sched­ule will be shared with par­ents as the roll­out con­tin­ues af­ter the first han­dover at Pe­nal Sec­ondary, where 168 stu­dents re­ceived de­vices.