Digital textbooks one way to lighten heavy schoolbags


THE move to adopt digital textbooks will take into consideration the limited amount of digital device ownership among students as well as Internet connectivity, says Lim Hui Ying.

The Deputy Education Minister told Dewan Rakyat that efforts made by the ministry to change materials within the education system from physical to digital textbooks will be introduced continuously to address the issue of heavy schoolbags.

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