Intel EM Limited, in collaboration with the Secondary Education Modernization Project (SEMP) of the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka, launched the latest phase of the Intel Education initiative in Ratnapura today bringing Intel® Teach program to the Sabaragamuwa Province. Adopted in over 40 countries around the world, Intel® Teach is aimed at enabling teachers to better exploit the full education potential of the technology age. The program has made tremendous headway in Sri Lanka as well, having already been successfully introduced to the Western, Central and Uva Provinces last year. Over 7,500 teachers have already been trained under this program in the Island.

Indika de Zoysa, Country Business Manager, Intel EM Limited, Sri Lanka Liaison office said, "The benefits of technology have permeated various areas of personal development, but its most manifest and tangible results are seen in education. Intel together with the Ministry of Education believes it is important that Sri Lanka receives these benefits so as to afford our student populations the same technological advantage and opportunity for progress reaped by students around the world. We are thankful to the Ministry for all the support they have given us in taking this programme to so many parts of the country already, without whom this project would could not have been the success it is.’

Intel® Teach in-service program is a professional development programme that trains teachers who are already working in schools. This programme aims to improve the instructional strategies of teachers and interactive quality of lessons by harnessing a technology-supported learning environment in the classroom. It familiarizes teachers on how best to use technological resources in a lesson so as to promote problem solving and critical thinking skills among students and inculcate independent learning.