Eve Gillman, acting CEO, Technology Colleges Trust, said: "Many of the schemes for which the NOF money can be used are based on distance learning and online access. Head teachers have already had to cope with literacy hour and now numeracy hour...
What has been expensive is the tuition - those online courses have cost me a fortune! Soon she was in a position to sign up for tutors twice a week and then do the rest of her schooling via distance learning, over the net.
Applying reason to human affairs may not lead inexorably to a single conclusion after all. Spotting them from a considerable distance is much harder. But one of the great imponderables of our time is how Asia will affect our familiar IT scene.
Duke's report into the project said: "Initial planning for academic iPod use focused on audio playback; however, digital recording capabilities ultimately generated the highest level of student and faculty interest.
Speaking at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in Edinburgh, Gates said: "We need to be humble in making predictions of how technology will affect education" - because people made big predictions about how TVs, video tapes and software would...
Dmitry Milovantsev, Russian deputy IT minister, claimed in an interview in Moscow attitudes are changing and the Russian economy is being reborn as "an economy of high technologies", although he admitted the country can't compete with the scale...