Schools in Wales to get £39m for fast broadband (From South Wales Argus)
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Schools in Wales to get £39m for fast broadband
9:50pm Monday 14th January 2013 in Gwent news
Schools in Wales to get £39m for fast broadband
THE Welsh Government is to invest £39 million of investment in faster broadband services for schools, it announced yesterday.
First minister of Wales Carwyn Jones said £27 million of the cash will be used to upgrade the physical connections in Welsh schools.
It is hoped the project will mean that schools will ensure learners are able to access faster, high-quality broadband services that are robust and reliable.
Mr Jones said: "We want Wales to be a world leader in digital learning, therefore we need to be able to offer our schools fast, consistent and reliable broadband services."
Where needed local councils will be able to provide their primary and special schools with £10,000 and secondary schools with £20,000 to improve ICT infrastructure.
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Mwy Eira
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10:54am Tue 15 Jan 13
Valrep
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12:14pm Tue 15 Jan 13
whatintheworld
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2:05pm Tue 15 Jan 13
Valrep wrote:Not sure if you're aware, but schools have software to block these kinds of websites, as well as monitoring software that allows the teacher to flick between different computers to see what the students are up to. With the latest estyn reports for schools, you can bet headteachers will be hot on discipline and academic studies anyway, if only in an attempt to save their own jobs
Discipline and academic studies should be the main priority not larking about on computers. No not all the time the little darlings will spend using them will be for worthwhile activities, they'll all be on twitface or some other social media site. Bring back real teachers there are so few of them about these days.
gingertom says...
10:11pm Mon 14 Jan 13
Cwmcarn high is not the only one in caerphilly that got it.
So how many more in wales got asbestos.