Digital text books on the cards

MEET AND GREET: MEC for Education Mandla Makupula welcomes Deputy Minister Enver Surty at a business breakfast at Hemingways Picture: SISIPHO ZAMXAKA
MEET AND GREET: MEC for Education Mandla Makupula welcomes Deputy Minister Enver Surty at a business breakfast at Hemingways Picture: SISIPHO ZAMXAKA
Printed textbooks could soon be a thing of the past as the Department of Basic Education (DBE) plans to go digital by the end of next year.

Speaking at a breakfast meeting in East London yesterday, the Deputy Minister for Basic Education, Enver Surty, said already 54% of the textbook content owned by the department of education has been digitised and 50% of schools had embraced information communication technology teaching and learning.

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