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  • Labor digital education revolution about to COAGulate

    The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is currently undertaking an audit into the state of IT in Australian secondary schools, with comments made by Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday confirming that the "digital divide" is a real phenomena.

  • Digital education revolution: who's got the tab?

    Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed this week that the onus for funding federal Labor's digital education revolution will fall more heavily on the states than first expected, prompting raised eyebrows from some and the ire of the Opposition.

  • States speechless on digital education funding

    After the Federal government was forced over the weekend to fend off claims that its digital education revolution is already coming unstuck, the offices of a number of the country's state education ministers have maintained a steady silence ahead of an intergovernmental meeting to discuss the next round of funding.

  • COAG hits green light for Labor school laptop plan

    The Federal Labor government's digital education revolution received its final rubber stamp at yesterday's Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting, but one industry observer has advised education administrators to take their money and put it elsewhere.

  • Teachers told: Cash in or lose chance at laptops

    Minister for Education Julia Gillard has written to secondary school principals across Australia inviting them to participate in the Labor government's so-called "digital education revolution".

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