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Elementary and middle schools will receive another 200,000 notebooks. Education State Secretary Bence Rétvári announced this on Monday at a press conference in Budapest.
“A total of around 450,000 students can now learn with modern technology, which was financed from our state budget,” emphasized the State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior. While before 2010 families had to watch the prices for textbook packages increase from school year to school year, Fidesz not only made school books free, but also distributed laptops free of charge to schools. The project, which is now in its third year, is aimed at students in grades 5, 6 and 9. A total of 193,000 modern devices from Dell, Asus, HP and Lenovo will be distributed.
First books, then laptops
In this “smart” world, it is particularly important to give teachers support in transferring knowledge to children as efficiently as possible. They feel better addressed by interactive tasks, sound and images provided by digital technology. The school system has never experienced a comparable development of such dimensions, said Rétvári. Almost 5,700 kindergartens and schools have received around 1,400 billion forints in funding in recent years.
Economy is strong enough
At the beginning of the year, educators received wage increases of 32%, which will be followed by a further +21% at the beginning of 2025. Within four years, the government has increased teachers’ salaries by a total of 93.5%, and not a single euro cent has flowed from Brussels for this. “Our economy is so strong that we can cover the wage increases as well as the costs of digital technology ourselves, even in times of war and sanctions,” emphasized the State Secretary, who added, however, that they are still waiting for EU funds to be released trust.
Down to the smallest villages
The president of the Klebelsberg school headquarters, Gabriella Dawn (l.), described the laptop project with its budget of 200 billion forints as a success story. In this way, modern technology has reached even the smallest villages. In schools, children whose parents refused to accept them can also work with the laptops. Otherwise, teachers encourage their students to use the technology not only in class but also at home.
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