In order to allow rural area students to obtain sufficient learning resources, the Education Department signed a memorandum of collaboration with the online education platform Snapask in April 2021. The platform allowed students in the city to ask questions online within the given 73,000 quota with answers, benefiting more than 2,000 students from 80 junior high schools. The city has been promoting the “New Taipei’s Support Program for Building up Academic Ability of Junior High School Students” since 2019. It provides resources for teachers to improve their teaching effectiveness. The two-pronged approach, namely the aforementioned program and the Snapask, can improve the learning of disadvantaged children and those in rural areas. In addition, the Easy Leap supplementary experiment program for English learning assisted by young overseas volunteers, has also been organized every year in collaboration with the Paramitas Foundation. It enables 500 disadvantaged students without easy access to English learning resources from 33 schools to practice English online with young Chinese overseas volunteers. Furthermore, since 2020, nine geographically remote schools in Ruifang District have been incorporated into the program to enable rural children to experience the joy of learning English and make friends around the world without being restricted by geographical distance.

Competent Authority：Education Department × Snapask