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SUMMARY:MEP
DTSTART:19810101T000000Z
DTEND:19860101T000000Z
DESCRIPTION:DES (Dept of Education and Science) establishes the Microe
 lectronics Education Programme\, (MEP) to support educational computin
 g (mainly secondary sector - expanded into Primary)\, through the esta
 blishment of 14 regional consortiums of LEAs\, plus 4 Special Educatio
 n Microelectronics Resource Centres (SEMERCs). The idea for a new Nati
 onal Programme (England\, Wales\, Northern Ireland with separate arran
 gements for Scotland) had first been raised on 6th March 1979 via a co
 nsultation document Primary developments included to setting up of Blu
 e File Software programs which were freely available. Project headed u
 p by Anita Straker. Total budget £23m
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