Our Great Leader (that's prime minister Tony Blair for our international readers) is set to continue his electoral push to improve technology resources in the UK. The FT takes on the story here:
Following the announcement by Gordon Brown, chancellor, in this month's Budget that he would be making more money available for school information technology investments, Mr Blair will detail how every secondary school will be able to offer all children access to computers at home by September 2006. The strategy will also reform existing tax breaks to encourage businesses to make it easier for lower-paid employees to use computers in their homes.
The digital plans build on the prime minister's 1995 promise - two years before Labour swept to power - to link every school, college, hospital and library to the "information superhighway". Mr Blair is likely to say that since that pledge, the use of information technology has been transformed. Every school is now connected to the internet and every school will have broadband by 2006.
There are different opinions on quite what "the digital divide" means, and how much use it is to hand out technology everywhere. And not everyone's sure whether computers are that useful in education.
But a technologically literate population is surely a long-term benefit to the country.
