The MEC will provide detailed information on the roll out of a new paperless education system to be introduced in Gauteng Schools.

The Tembisan reported in October last year (One student, one tablet), the MEC told pupils at Ikusasa Secondary School in Tembisa every pupil at the school will receive a tablet device when the school opens in 2015.

“Ikusasa is one of the five schools I have adopted in Gauteng. I will make sure that when schools re-open next year, every teacher will have a laptop and every pupil will have a tablet,” MEC Lesufi then told pupils.

The Big Switch On Pilot project is the first step taken by the Gauteng Department of Education in mordernising public education and responding to new education imperatives for quality education.

The project will work towards introducing smart paperless classrooms (classrooms of the future) to ensure that learners and teachers have progressive access to broadband and innovative learning and teaching tools which will enable them to participate in the economies of the future.

This pilot project will be officially launched by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, when the schools re-open on Wednesday.