Mandaue City provides free tablets for senior high school students

Mandaue City became the first local government unit (LGU) in Central Visayas to provide free tablets for students. City Mayor Jonas Cortes turned over 5,000 tablets for public senior high school students to support them in their learning in the new normal.

It really is of great help to our learners especially that we are on our way toward the next level of the delivery of instruction,

according to Dr. Salustiano Jiminez, Regional Director of the DepEd 7.

Mayor Cortes gave the multi-touched tablets to the Department of Education (DepEd) Mandaue City Division on Thursday, December 3, 2020 and said that they are committed to providing quality education to its students despite the pandemic. The tablets have detachable keyboards and contain the applications approved by the DepEd.

In addition, Lawyer John Eddu Ibañez said that recipient students cannot give or sell the gadgets to others as ownership cannot be transferred. And students must return the tablets at the end of the school year.

Meanwhile, another set of 15,000 units of tablets for the students in public elementary schools and 623 laptops for teachers are expected to be delivered soon.

Apart from the gadgets, Mandaue City is also coordinating with a service provider to provide free wifi to be used by the barangays.