Mongolia to collaborate with Singapore on digital school project

Oyundelger 2018-07-31 06:07

Society

Under the first phase of the project, two million USD will be spent on improving public schools and kindergartens in Ulaanbaatar and 21 provinces.

Representatives from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports and Allin Technologies Private Company Limited of Singapore signed an agreement on implementing a digital training project in Ulaanbaatar. Under the first phase of the project, two million USD will be spent on improving public schools and kindergartens in Ulaanbaatar and 21 provinces. Providing teachers with the innovative training program, establishing digital classrooms, adopting a curriculum with the best practices formulated by the world’s leading educational organizations in Mongolia, and replacing the current teaching tools and handbooks with up-to-date ones are key activities under the project. The ministry believes that this project will benefit more than 300 public schools and kindergartens, and their 5,000 teachers and 100,000 children. Researchers and scientists led by Professor of Harvard Graduate School of Education Catherine Snow will assess the result of the project.