TALLINN — Estonian students may no longer have to worry about bringing no. 2 pencils for testing.

The country is bringing its e-invasion to classrooms, looking to have schools administer exams entirely online instead of with paper, although the exact date hasn’t been set yet.

Initiated in January 2010 by Estonian National Examinations and Qualifications Center, the system developed by AS Fujitsu Services is set to be used in schools by the fall of 2011, although it’s still unclear how widespread this will be.

Full implementation of the system will cost 26.5 million krooni (€1.7 million) and the Ministry of Education and Research has not allocated funding for the full amount.

“In the future, this information technology system will enable to make exams as e-exams, but when it will be a reality depends on the financial resources,” Madli Leikop, press spokeswoman of  National Examinations and Qualifications Center told Postimees.

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