ICT skills the Fourth 'R'
Baroness Blackstone, Education and Employment Minister, in her speech to Commonwealth Education Ministers in Gaborone, Botswana on 29th July 1997 stated that the development of children's ICT skills were the Fourth R, a basic skill as important as literacy and numeracy At school level initiatives such as NGfL and for the general populace the improvement of ICT skills was covered by the University for Industry
