El Salvador to introduce Bitcoin schooling in colleges by 2024

by Jeremy

The Ministry of Schooling of El Salvador and the non-profit, non-governmental group Mi Primer Bitcoin/My First Bitcoin (MPB/MFB) partnered so as to add Bitcoin (BTC) schooling to public faculty curriculum by 2024. 

John Dennehy, the founding father of MPB confirmed to Cointelegraph that this can be a mission of the Ministry of Schooling that MPB is helping, together with Bitcoin Seaside.

Its program “My First Bitcoin,” from which college students obtain a diploma of completion, might be major supply materials for the Bitcoin portion, in response to Dennehy. 

He stated coaching for the pilot program begins on Sep.7 with help from Bitcoin Seaside. The Bitcoin diploma program might be taught to 150 public faculty lecturers from 75 colleges to offer them with a “base data” of Bitcoin. 

“As the primary nation to undertake Bitcoin, El Salvador might be an instance for the world. High quality schooling is our greatest likelihood to make sure that that instance is a optimistic one.”

After the preliminary coaching, Dennehy stated the lecturers will return to their very own colleges and educate from the curriculum created by the Ministry of Schooling. “If profitable,” he stated, “this system might be rolled out to each faculty within the nation subsequent yr.”

“When My First Bitcoin started two years in the past, one of many goals was to coach a nation. It is a important step towards that.”

In a current interview with Bitcoin Seaside, its neighborhood chief Roman Martínez instructed Cointelegraph that over 25,000 college students in El Salvador have already realized about Bitcoin within the classroom. 

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Dennehy stated that whereas El Salvador is at the moment the main focus, the mission is to deliver Bitcoin schooling to the world. 

‘El Salvador is main the best way with public Bitcoin schooling and we count on different nations to comply with. The world is watching. 

He instructed Cointelegraph that MPB is already in early talks with two different governments in Latin America which might be concerned with implementing El Salvadorian-style Bitcoin schooling for native college students.

On Sep.4 Bitcoin Cuba posted on social media that sign-ups are open for the primary version of its personal model of Mi Primer Bitcoin/My First Bitcoin (MFB).

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