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400,000 may be in cyber limbo - Online deficit could leave students behind

Hundreds of thousands of Jamaican students may be unable to tap into online learning because of inaccessibility to computers at home as the academic year gets under way today, Education Minister Fayval Williams has said. The yawning vacuum in...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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