Vanuatu/UAP

This is the Wikieducator home page for the training component of the Vanuatu Universal Access Programme (UAP) ICT for education project, 2015.

Background Information
Vanuatu Government's Universal Access Policy (UAP) aims to provide telecommunications internet services into rural and un-served areas that are not commercially viable for operators to provide telecommunications services.

As a means of expanding demand, TRR embarked on three pilot programs. One of them, Tablets for Students (TFS), aimed to make 7 inch Android tablets available to students in 7 schools located throughout Vanuatu. Another, the Computer Lab/Internet Community Centre programme, is designed to assist with the installation of computer labs in 15 schools across the country.

Integral to the success of these programmes is the ability of teachers and other key stakeholders to understand the technical capabilities, requirements, strengths and limitations of the computing resources they have at hand, of the Internet in general and most importantly of the professional community of practice which they collectively comprise.

Ahapi IT Solution Services and international partners Leeming International Consulting (Solomon Islands) and Nuzusys (Philippines) were awarded the contract to design and provide a training workshop for 60 teachers and education officers from the participating schools. The workshop will take place during the last week of August 2015.

At this time this initiative includes a total of 19 schools selected under both CLICC and TFS programmes, with presence in each of the six provinces. Schools range from Francophone, Anglophone, primary, secondary and RTC.

There will be on average two teacher participants per school. A representative from each provincial education authority will also be accompanying each school to the training workshop. Zone Curriculum Advisors (ZCAs) that have a school within their respective zone selected for the school ICT programmes will represent the office of provincial education to attend.