Delay in automation training worries Philippine teachers

Via Philippine Daily Inquirer  12/14/2009   MANILA, Philippines -- “What’s happening with the automation project?” No less than Education Secretary Jesli Lapus raised this question on Monday after the scheduled training of the 400,000 teachers for the automated polling machines was again moved to “March-April” in 2010.

Lapus said that the “last advice” of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) legal department chief Ferdinand Rafanan was that the training would be held in “March-April.”
Teachers were originally told that the training would be held last November, before it was moved to February, and now to “March-April.”

“They keep on changing their minds about their scheduled target for the training and now, it’s too near the elections,” Lapus said.  Continue reading here http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20091214-242026/Delay-in-automation-training-worries-teachers