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Broadband for all children?
Posted by: eusty on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 07:50 AM
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The government has drawn up plans to provide all of the UK's six million
children with home broadband access.
The plans drawn up by Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
are to improve education standards by making home internet available to the
estimated one million children in the UK do not have access to a computer at
home.
The DCSF said it is in talks with BT, Microsoft and RM, among others, to
create partnerships and is also putting pressure on suppliers to bring down the
price of IT equipment to make it available to those on lower incomes.
| "We need to get to a point where — in the same way when they
start school the expectation is you've [the parent] got to find a
school uniform, provide them with something to write with and
probably these days a calculator, and in secondary school some
sports gear — well, you add to that some IT. Obviously you need to
make that affordable; you need to make that universal, otherwise you
just advantage those who can afford it." |
| Jim Knight schools minister |
The government's Home Access Taskforce plans to due to publish a report in
April.
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