Stu­dents at Tabaquite Sec­ondary School are now en­joy­ing a ma­jor dig­i­tal boost thanks to a do­na­tion of new WiFi in­fra­struc­ture by UNICEF. 

The school is the first of 14 across the coun­try to ben­e­fit from the spe­cial dig­i­tal de­vel­op­ment project un­der­tak­en by UNICEF and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

On Tues­day 10 May 2022, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly was joined by Dr Aloys Ka­muragiye, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the UNICEF East­ern Caribbean Area, and Fi­az Shah, Ed­u­ca­tion Man­ag­er at UNICEF, to tour the Tabaquite Sec­ondary School and see how the new WiFi set up has been op­er­at­ing. 

Students of Tabaquite Secondary School perform a science experiment for Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Education, during her visit to the school on Tuesday 10 May 2022. (Image courtesy Ministry of Education)

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the ed­u­ca­tion min­istry, the project fund­ing of US$100 mil­lion is for 14 schools. It in­volves the out­fit­ting of all class­rooms, lab­o­ra­to­ries and spe­cial­ty rooms, with con­nec­tiv­i­ty of 16 ac­cess points to pro­vide an on­line learn­ing plat­form for stu­dents and to en­cour­age dig­i­tal de­vel­op­ment and ad­vance­ment. 

The min­istry says Tabaquite Sec­ondary, with a school pop­u­la­tion of 556, is the first school to be com­plet­ed.

It is es­ti­mat­ed that the re­main­ing schools will be com­plet­ed in June.