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A New Specialist System: Transforming Secondary Education
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A New Specialist System: Transforming Secondary Education, DfEE. ICT is mentioned throughout this document as a vital tool to underpin the government's agenda for establishing specialist schools, raising standards in teaching and learning and reform of the workforce. ICT is mentioned throughout the document
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DfEE - Remodelling Primary Schools
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Remodelling Primary Schools, published by DfEE outlined how government would build on national agreement (Raising Standards and Tackling Workload) to raise standards in primary schools by encouraging and support them to be innovative and at the same time try to reduce administrative burdens on schools
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DfES - Excellence and Enjoyment - A strategy for Primary Schools
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Excellence and Enjoyment - A strategy for Primary Schools published ISBN 1 84185 993 1 (dfes-0377) Focussed on how to combine excellence in teaching with enjoyment of learning. The intention was to integrate ICT into the Primary Strategy by extending the sort of support provided by the Consultants to include ICT usage across the curriculum and to use performance data to make sure that the achievements of all children were recognised. Mention (page 5) on how teachers will be helped to use ICT to support good learning and teaching
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E-learning credits, College Online, laptops for teachers and schools' broadband
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Charles Clark, Secretary of State for Education and Skills announced at BETT 03, and extra £280m for e-learning credits, this brings the total to £100m each year for the next 3 years to give schools access to online curriculum materials. An extra £92m to develop College Online. £8m for Online training for teachers in 2004. An extra £195m to provide more laptops for teachers over the next 3 years and finally an extra £287m to provide all schools with broadband capability by 2006, this is on top of the £71m already announced for 2004.
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NGfL
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NGfL introduced making broadband internet available in all primary schools
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DfES - Fulfilling the Potential - Transforming teaching and learning through ICT
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Fulfilling the Potential - Transforming teaching and learning through ICT in Schools published May 03 by DfES (0265 200MIG1038). This document outlined the vision for the future direction of ICT in schools, and included an overview of how past investment and had helped to drive up standards
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Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy Consultation
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DfES (Dept for Education and Skills) launched Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy Consultation in July 2003. Strategy focussed on making sure the benefits of e-learning are universally available. Outlines the long-term strategy, rather than quick fix, of how e-learning might improve the learning experience.
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Every Child Matters
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Mar 05, 2011
Every Child Matters, published September 2003
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Inner London schools to become specialist schools
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Tony Blair's London Schools speech on 13th November 2003 outlined plans for each school in each of 5 London boroughs (Lambeth, Southwark, Haringey, Hackney and Islington). He stated that all secondary schools will become a specialist school over the next 3 years, there will be 11 academies, a further 3 new schools, every secondary school will be offering extending school provision and more choice post-16. He also outlined plans for the rebuilding or significant refurbishment of every secondary school in the 5 boroughs
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CD-ROM Exemplary Primary Practice and KS3 ICT across the Curriculum packs
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Government publishes a set of CDs with exemplar primary practice in the use of ICT for every year group and subject. At KS3 the ICT across the Curriculum packs were also published
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