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  • 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.

  • Schools laptop audit completed amid govt silence

    After question marks had arisen over the combined efforts of the federal government, COAG and state and territory authorities to audit the state of IT in Australia's secondary schools as the first step in Labor's so-called "digital education revolution", the Department of Education has announced today that the audit is complete.

  • Liberals lost for words over Labor laptop plan

    The Opposition spokesperson for education has accused the Labor government of trying to back-pedal on its commitment to provide a laptop for every student between years 9 and 12.

  • Labor to miss schools broadband plan deadline

    The Liberals have accused the Labor government of "breaking another election promise" after Senator Kim Carr was unable to confirm that high-speed broadband access will be made available to schools in time to accompany government's planned one-PC-per-desk rollout for high school students.

  • 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.

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  • Rudd awakening: Govt's plans for ICT

    Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?

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