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BETT 2000 speech announces: £37m of the £205m NGfL Standards Funds 00-01 is earmarked for eight regional broadband consortia covering over 80 LEAs in England NOF funding £20m available to provide teachers with portable and desktop computers - Subsidy available is £500 towards cost

LEAs able to with-hold part of ICT in Schools funding (Standards Fund 31b) to provide high speed access to the Internet for educational institutions through regional grid arrangements, e.g. London Grid for Learning

This report is concerned with aspects of the work undertaken by the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP), which was established by the Department of Education and Science (DES) in 1980. The Programme initially had a budget of £12 million spread over four years, but the Programme was later extended by two years and spent over £23 million in the course of its life. The report is based on the evidence obtained during the period 1983 to 1986. In this period HMI sought to identify the extent to which schools were able to respond to the opportunities and challenges of working with new information technology (IT), and to assess the influence of the MEP. In the course of the survey visits were made to over 350 educational institutions in England. This report also draws on information from over 200 others where computing work had been observed in the course of normal visiting. In addition a variety of MEP committees and in-service training sessions was attended and numerous MEP-funded materials were reviewed. The work of pupils with special needs and of the Special Education aspects of the MEP is commented on only briefly, in view of the more limited evidence available during the main part of the survey.

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Rose Review of Primary Curriculum recommends ICT as a key skill alongside literacy and numeracy

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White Paper: Schools: Achieving Success published 5th September, outlines the government's vision to transform secondary education through a major expansion of Specialist schools, City Academies and Beacon Schools, to raise standards and achievements for every pupil in the country. Also covered: Curriculum Online proposals, the role of ICT to help reduce teachers' workloads and role of ICT to support families and the wider community