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By Fadzilah Hj. Muhamad Published 30 January 2009 The Multimedia Development Corp (MDeC) is helping the Education Ministry to upgrade 50 rural and underserved schools into smart schools. MDeC, which is custodian of the MSC Malaysia initiative, said upgrading work will be done in three phases beginning with 15 schools this year, 15 more next year and 20 in 2011. Its senior manager of smart schools, Dr Norrizan Razali, said the 50 schools located nationwide will be modelled after the country’s pioneer 88 smart schools. MDeC will use a different approach to upgrade the rural schools to smart schools, Norrizan said. “It will be a whole different challenge upgrading these 50 schools,” Norrizan told In.Tech in an interview recently. Unlike the first batch of smart schools, most of the rural schools are not high performing schools but she believes that ICT (information and communications technology) can help broaden the minds and improve the grades of students there. “These schools don’t have

CYBERJAYA, March 31 (Bernama) -- After 88 schools have been chosen for the smart school programme, the Education Ministry is extending the programme to 15 rural schools nationwide. The schools were expected to be announced at the project launching scheduled in April, said Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) chief executive officer, Datuk Badlisham Ghazali. He said out of the 15, two schools, Sekolah Menengah Ampang Pecah in Kuala Kubu Baru, Selangor and Sekolah Kebangsaan Felda Palong 14 in Gemas, Negeri Sembilan were selected as the showcase. Among the benefits that these two schools would enjoy included notebooks, wireless Internet connection (Wi-Fi) and wireless digital communication system (WiMAX), he said. "We want the two schools to be the showcase as we know rural schools may have other problems like electricity supply disruption. "We want to study how we can rectify or minimise the problems, and if the ministry agrees, the same facilities may be extended to the