Give B40 varsity students laptops instead of tablets

YOURSAY | ‘Govt won’t be able to get decent tablet, what a lot more notebook.’

Thoughts arise more than excellent of tablets for B40 varsity learners

PurpleJaguar0553: With an allocation of RM450 million, that would suggest an typical of RM750 for each man or woman. This is dependent on the distribution for 600,000 students.

For this meagre quantity you can’t get a good pill, what more a laptop computer. Even a comprehensive Microsoft licence prices about RM1,000.

If the government is honest about uplifting the B40 and they really should be, a far more first rate sum would be about RM3,000 for every individual. Their deficiency of access to technologies has place them again numerous years and exacerbated by Covid-19.

Why just cannot the needs of the B40 be holistically managed by the govt? Is it so challenging? RM1 billion is becoming presented (as special assist) to civil servants for Raya, lots of of whom did not have to perform all through the pandemic.

They even acquired increments and a reward when the financial state was down. Surely this revenue could go to assistance the B40.

The govt should stop fishing for votes and carrying out promotions that only line the pocket of the prosperous, and rather make severe and honest endeavours to enable the B40.

It really is incredulous that our ministers do not appear to know the struggling of the people today, specifically when this was laid bare for the duration of the pandemic and floods.

It was initiatives from the personal sector, civil modern society groups and the white flag movement that set out to help the individuals. The governing administration was not there then and it seems they are not in this article now.

There is an alarming gulf concerning what the ministers know about the general public and their conclusion producing. They appear to be to have no empathy at all.

The major culprits, of system, are Malaysians as a the vast majority continue on to vote for these incompetent and care-considerably less leaders.

Regular Joe: Has the ministry executed scientific tests of students’ needs and person-tests of the tablets?

As an academic, I have a pill to read information and surf the web for leisure. I will never ever do major academic get the job done on the pill.

First of all, the screen is really compact and the memory ability is also small for critical do the job.

Headhunter: Indeed, tablets have limited use. They are not suggested in particular for greater-level students. Is this yet another fraud in the earning?

Negotiate directly with makers for the laptops and really don’t confine to just a person provider.

Really don’t attempt to idiot the public since there are quite a few tech-savvy Malaysians who are authorities in the industry. They know the requirements and the price of personal computers.

GreenGiraffe9044: You have bought to be kidding me… tablets for college students? Tablets for online classes are only acceptable up to the key degree. Over and above that, a notebook is the way to go.

If you seriously intend to assist, make sure you help wholeheartedly, if not really do not waste taxpayers’ dollars.

OCT: This will be an additional funds wasted job. The productive corporation will be laughing all the way to the financial institution. The minister doesn’t know what applications will be used by pupils. With out understanding the requirements, it will be a failure.

Also, there is no one particular-measurement-matches-all in tablets. The arts and science students’ desires are very diverse.

There really should be a stress take a look at on the tablets to make sure that it satisfies the necessities. If the tablet is not completely examined with the ideal applications, the rakyat can assume the tablets to be useless.

Many several years again (all around 2000), there was a organization that was tasked to provide desktops (produced in Malaysia) for the students.

It was a failure as the pcs couldn’t accomplish as required. There was a hue and cry. It was a clear situation of wrongdoing. In the conclusion, no person was billed and the incident was overlooked.

This will be a repeat of that failure if the tablets are not thoroughly analyzed. Unhappy to say, it is all about producing/milking dollars. Students’ needs are secondary. Just after all, no ministers have been charged for not undertaking their responsibility.

Way To Go: The parameters of users’ desires ought to be evaluated right before a appropriate manufacturer of tablet or Personal computer (individual pc) is determined. Only then can an open up tender be invited and conditions negotiated.

The specification must be the yardstick. The open tender should really occur in past right after the ministry has decided the specification.

Nearly anything considerably less is corruption where by thousands and thousands go into the pockets of the cronies and the undergraduates are saddled with low cost unusable PCs that will not serve their desires.

From the vagueness and hesitation of Communications and Multimedia Minister Annuar Musa, we can scent the rat from miles away.

LimeSinga1592: There will have to be a ruling stating that just about anything costing extra than 10 per cent over what can be purchased on line need to be automatically acquired on line (up to 10 per cent is for fixing and assistance). Or some identical rule so that the general public feels their tax is not wasted.

That staying explained, college college students really should be provided a lot more resilient, up-to-day, mid-range stage laptops. That too can be determined by a group of IT experts, and the laptops have to have at minimum two years’ warranty.

Sealthedeal: One more Communications Ministry foul-up. How can they perhaps deal with 5G when they are not able to even acquire good laptops?

An vital query, will the products be 5G compliant? Or even join to the net at all?

Sree Ramanan: The governing administration must give a credit voucher for the buy of a laptop.

Procurement of laptops at a high quantity very likely will see the middlemen taking a massive reduce, resulting in the students finding substandard merchandise.

If you can credit score some of the dollars into e-wallets, might as properly do this. This will also benefit area personal computer retailers and not only politically-connected firms.

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