3,000 schools to have free data access

JAKARTA: Some 3,000 vocational schools in Java will have free data access based on CDMA technology, following a memorandum of understanding signed on Monday between the Ministry of National Education's Directorate of Vocational Education and telecommunication firm PT Mobile-8 Telecom.

Both students and teachers will be able to get free information through the website http://dikmenjur.mobile-8.net on curriculums, competency standards and education mapping.

"In a bid to produce graduates who are technology savvy, we need to cooperate more with the telecommunications provider," said head of the directorate Gatot Hari Priowirjanto. --JP