4,500 seventh and tenth graders from all over the country and their teachers will receive computer-assisted training within a three-year pilot project initiated by the Ministry of Education. The contest to select the schools was launched on July 30, IPN reports.

Deputy Minister of Education Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei told a news conference that by this project the Ministry aims to introduce computer-assisted training at lessons and in the individual learning process. The seventh and tenth graders will be able to receive the training until they finish the secondary school and, respectively, the lyceum.

Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei said there will be trained by 1,500 students from 10-15 pilot schools annually. The students will acquire advanced digital knowledge and improved curricula competences through information technology applied in the teaching process. The beneficiaries also include 300 teachers from pilot-institutions that will be trained and will receive technical assistance in implementing new approaches in the teaching-learning-assessment process.

According to the deputy minister, every school will be provided with the necessary equipment for the seventh and tenth graders and for their teachers. There will be instituted the class management system that enables to monitor the education process and the electronic register of grades. Communication will be ensured between the parents, students and teachers.

At least 50% of the teachers of the education institutions taking part in the contest must have basic abilities of using ICT in education. The institutions must accept the switchover to digital grading and show that the parents of all the students involved in the project consented to using the computer in the education process.

The schools can file the applications by September 15.