Tablets to be delivered to schools from June 7

The first shipment of 2,000 units delivered on Wednesday have reportedly not met specifications and will undergo an inspection, he said. Once the inspection is completed, 1,000 units, regardless of whether they meet specifications or not, will be given to 183 trainers to study before they train teachers.
He said a 10page user manual was ready to be distributed to schools and the online version can be downloaded from the Obec website, www.obec.go.th.
“The tablets will be handed to Education Region 1 offices in each province and then on to other regional offices when the tablets are ready for other provinces. There will be four shipments of 100,000 each delivered every 10 days,” he said.
Chinnapat would not give details of the exact delivery date, but said all firstgraders across the country would get tablet computers before the end of this semester in September.
He said Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had suggested that students in higher classes could act as teachers’ assistants in the initial phase of the tablet allocation. He said Obec would soon launch a competition for people to come up with the best teaching media that can be used with tablet computers, as well as content.
Sasithara Phichaicharnnarong, the Education Ministry’s permanent secretary, said a ministry committee was coordinating with the Customs Department to discuss a possible tariff exemption for the purchase of tablet computers.