BSG Touts Broadband For Education
Posted: 30th Apr, 2003 By: MarkJ
The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), a government backed advisory group, has stated that broadband Internet access could improve education and coverage, but not without help:
On a visit to Korea, the group found that education has been crucial to the country's phenomenal uptake of broadband. The government must take a lead on broadband in UK schools if it is to persuade teachers that this technology can make a difference to their pupils, said the report.
"Teachers are incredibly overburdened and the last thing they need is to be thrown a whole lot more technology and told to get on with it," said Antony Walker, the group's chief executive.
The government also needs to address inconsistencies in how broadband is being implemented in the nation's primary and secondary schools, said Mr Walker. "It is a mixed picture across the UK. In some places really innovative and interesting things are being done but in others there is a low level of understanding," he said.
The government has already committed itself to broadband-enabling all schools by 2006, yet so far just 40% have been enabled. More @ BBC News Online.
On a visit to Korea, the group found that education has been crucial to the country's phenomenal uptake of broadband. The government must take a lead on broadband in UK schools if it is to persuade teachers that this technology can make a difference to their pupils, said the report.
"Teachers are incredibly overburdened and the last thing they need is to be thrown a whole lot more technology and told to get on with it," said Antony Walker, the group's chief executive.
The government also needs to address inconsistencies in how broadband is being implemented in the nation's primary and secondary schools, said Mr Walker. "It is a mixed picture across the UK. In some places really innovative and interesting things are being done but in others there is a low level of understanding," he said.
The government has already committed itself to broadband-enabling all schools by 2006, yet so far just 40% have been enabled. More @ BBC News Online.
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