Education minister dismisses over e-textbooks

Several employees of the government's Centre for Education Development have lost their jobs after the intervention of Education Minister Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, Polish Radio reported. They had been responsible for electronic textbooks for Polish schools. Kluzik-Rostkowska has said she was not satisfied with the results of the process. She claims that the e-textbooks did not make enough use of the internet and that they were not adjusted to schoolchildren in terms of language. The Ministry of Education has ordered a total of 60 electronic textbooks for various levels of schooling, meant to be used starting from the 2015/2016 school year. The total cost of their preparation in PLN 50 million.