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IT in UK schools: It’s time for a strategy

The United Kingdom has a higher ratio of computers to schoolchildren than almost any other country — but that does not mean IT has made the impact that it might have done either on educational standards or on the way that schoolchildren learn. On the contrary, although there are variations between schools, it is true to say that much of the installed hardware is outdated, that many children leave school with only a rudimentary appreciation of IT, and that large numbers of teachers are neither fully comfortable with the technology nor aware of all its possibilities...