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The short-term measures described in Part I will not have the desired effects unless the emphasis is shifted in our school system towards Science, Technology, Engineering, Creative Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) subjects. Focus on these subjects along with content, hardware, network, software application, choices of pedagogical tools and so on all has to be entrusted to private service providers (PSP) under performance-linked contractual agreements. The setting up of computer labs, local area networks, data centres etc would require a massive jump in the allocation of budgetary resources towards education. But this would be a worthwhile use of our scarce resources which are at present being squandered on paying higher-than-market salaries in government schools to indifferent, non-committed, incompetent ,work shirking teachers (there are many exceptions to this observation, of course, as many teachers show a great deal of passion in teaching their students). The future will be secured by increased use of the internet, cloud computing, Big Data and data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning in the government as well as the private sector to drive economic growth through deep integration of the next generation of ICT technologies with the real economy.

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The News

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12-2-2022

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