Posted on August 28, 2009 by by valerirojas

The NSW government has announced the delivery of laptops to all year 9 students, this is part of the Rudd Government’s $2.2 million Digital Education Revolution to NSW high schools only.

“More than 200,000 devices will be distributed to NSW government school students over the life of this $386 million program. NSW Minister for Education and Training, Verity Firth said.

Ms Firth said the roll-out would begin with Year 9 students and for the next four years, each new Year 9 class in NSW government schools would receive a laptop, once they have finished Year 12, they can keep their laptop for good.

“In a world first, Microsoft’s Windows 7 has been installed on every laptop which is also equipped with $5,500 of the latest Microsoft and Adobe software and is wirelessly enabled to allow students to access the internet from anywhere within the school.”

The Government has also invested $16 million over four years to provide secondary high school teachers with the same laptops so teachers don’t miss out.

This is a great initiave from the NSW Government and hopefully other State Governments will follow soon.

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